A former British soldier has described how, while descending Mount Everest, he lost contact with a Nepali mountain guide. Six days after being last spotted above Camp 3 at an elevation of about 7,500 meters (24,600 feet), Dawa Sherpa was discovered alive on Thursday.
At first, it was hard to believe Sherpa had survived despite the odds, according to climber Chris Thrall. “It’s kind of crazy to be fighting back tears with his daughter one minute and then see him crawling into town the next,” Thrall said on BBC’s Newshour. There are no words to describe how incredible it is. After hard days of climbing, Thrall last saw Dawa Sherpa resting briefly on his bag while returning to base camp.
The guide, also called Hillary Dawa Sherpa in honor of renowned mountaineer Edmund Hillary, passed Thrall. Before encountering another member of their group a “Polish climber with no oxygen, battling fairly severe frostbite” he descended alone for what he judged to be between fifty and one hundred meters. My focus quickly shifted to the weakest of the three. He told Newshour, “And that was that.
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