Nepali Guide Dawa Sherpa Found Alive on Mount Everest After Being Presumed Dead
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Dawa Sherpa, 52, presumed dead on Mount Everest, found alive crawling to base camp a week after going missing, with frostbite but in good health, after his funeral rites had begun.
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Mount Everest's climbing season was the busiest ever, with over 1,000 climbers, and five deaths this season.
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. [...] The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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- What were the exact circumstances of Dawa Sherpa's disappearance and survival?
