Guide missing for a week on Mount Everest is found alive

Photo of Mount Everest taken by geologist and guide Pedro Hauck, from Itatiba (SP)
Pedro Hauck/Personal archive
In a remarkable account of survival, a Sherpa guide in Nepal was found alive on Mount Everest this Thursday (4) after being missing for almost a week.
Dawa Sherpa, also known as Hillary Dawa, was located by a cleaning team while crawling through the snowy slopes near the Khumbu Icefall, a dangerous icefall just above the base camp, said Pemba Sherpa, from 8K Expeditions, who coordinated the search.
Although some circumstances of his disappearance are still unclear, authorities in the mountaineering sector said he managed to survive without food or oxygen in extremely dangerous conditions.
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What is known about the Sherpa's disappearance and rescue
Dawa Sherpa is a man in his fifties who was last seen near Camp 3 on May 29.
He was returning with a Polish climber after they failed to reach the summit of 8,849 m from the world's highest mountain.
He is believed to have disappeared somewhere between Camp 3 and Camp 4, and it is unclear how the two became separated.
Lama Kazi Sherpa, of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Board, said Dawa was located by his team above the base camp, from where he was then transported safely down.
Khimlal Gautam, head of the office of the Everest base camp of the Department of Tourism, told German news agency dpa that news of Dawa Sherpa's disappearance was received on May 30.
"We carried out an aerial search yesterday to the base camp but were unable to find him," Gautam told dpa.
"It is a great relief and good news that he appeared on his own," Gautam said.
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Problems with documentation delayed the rescue
According to Gautam, the rescue efforts were delayed due to complications related to the expedition's documentation.
Dawa Sherpa "had obtained permission from one company, but was climbing with another. This created complications in the rescue process itself, because rescue operations are expensive," he said.
"Dawa survived alone for almost a week without food, water or supplemental oxygen, crossing the treacherous Khumbu Icefall [even after removing the fixed ladders for the season]," the Nepal Mount Everest company said in a social media post.
"This is nothing short of a miracle," it added.
About a thousand climbers, including guides, have reached the top of Mount Everest this season. At least five other people have died trying to climb one of the world's natural wonders.

Source: G1

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