Sherpa missing for a week on Everest found crawling toward base camp after his family begins funeral rites

Sherpa guide Dawa Sherpa, 52, was found alive and crawling toward Everest base camp nearly a week after disappearing during a descent. His family had already begun funeral rites when he was discovered by a cleanup crew in the Khumbu Icefall, surviving without food, water, or supplemental oxygen. Rescuers brought him to safety and he was flown to a Kathmandu hospital for treatment of frostbite and other complications. Dawa went missing around May 29 while guiding a Polish climber, who made it back safely. His survival is being described as a miracle, occurring at the end of a climbing season that saw over 1,000 summits and five reported deaths on Everest.

Nepali Mount Everest guide Dawa Sherpa, 52, was found alive on Thursday morning after being missing for six days. He was discovered crawling down snowy slopes near the Khumbu Icefall by a clearing crew, six days after he was last seen descending the mountain around May 29. While Sherpa did not reach base camp, his client did. He was rescued, taken to HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu, and reunited with his wife and daughter, who had already begun funeral rituals. A delay in organizing a search team and unsuccessful helicopter searches had led his family to believe he had died.

Sherpa guide Dawa Sherpa has been found alive on Mount Everest six days after he went missing at a high altitude. Cleaners discovered him crawling towards Base Camp. His survival at that altitude for an extended period is being described as a miracle, with speculation he may have used tents for shelter. Before his discovery, his wife had offered last rites, and a fellow climber had posted a tribute believing he had died. Dawa Sherpa was last seen resting with his backpack during a descent from Camp 4, and he did not rejoin his climbing companions. Aerial searches had been conducted without success prior to his finding.

A Nepali climbing guide, Hillary Dawa Sherpa, who went missing on Mount Everest on May 30, has been found alive. Officials stated he was discovered on Thursday morning near Base Camp by the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) after being missing for six days. He was reportedly crawling down. Sherpa had been overseeing search and rescue efforts with 8K Expeditions. A helicopter has been dispatched to transport him to a hospital in Kathmandu. He had successfully summited the mountain with climber Chris Thrall on May 29.