Skip to main contentSkip to navigation 0:52 Sherpa found alive after vanishing on Mount Everest almost a week earlier – video Missing Sherpa guide found alive on Everest after funeral rites had begunClimbing support team rescue Hillary Dawa Sherpa almost a week on from when he was last seen A Nepali guide who was believed to have died on Mount Everest has been found crawling to base camp a week after going missing – and after his funeral rites had begun.Dawa Sherpa, also known as Hillary Dawa Sherpa after the famous climber Edmund Hillary, was last seen on 29 May but did not reach base camp with other climbing groups.A fellow climber said he was last seen around the “death zone” region of the world’s highest mountain, where the pressure is so low that oxygen levels are insufficient for sustained human survival.A helicopter rescue team had failed to find the 52-year-old, but Dawa Sherpa was located on Thursday morning, according to Pemba Sherpa of 8K Expeditions, which coordinated the search. A climbing support team found him as he crawled down the snowy slopes around the Khumbu icefall, just above base camp, said Pemba Sherpa.He had frostbite on his hands but appeared to be in good health, and was quickly carried down to safety and given food and water. A rescue…
Published: June 4, 2026 5:10 pm
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