Nepali Mount Everest guide found alive after being missing for six days

Key points

• Dawa Sherpa’s wife and daughter had already begun funeral rituals for him when they were told he was alive.
• A Nepali Sherpa guide who went missing on Mount Everest six days ago has been found crawling alone to base camp after fears that he had died.
• According to Pemba Sherpa of 8K Expeditions, which was coordinating the search for the missing guide, Dawa Sherpa was found by a clearing crew on Thursday morning as he was crawling down snowy slopes around the Khumbu Icefall.
• Dawa, 52, was carried down to safety and given food and water.
• A rescue helicopter flew him to HAMS Hospital in the capital, Kathmandu, where his wife and daughter, who had already begun funeral rituals, were waiting.