Everest Guide Found Alive After Funeral Rites Have Begun

Dawa Sherpa, a Nepali Everest guide who had been missing since May 29 and presumed dead, was found alive and crawling toward base camp a week later with frostbite but in good health; funeral rites had already begun for him when rescuers spotted him near the Khumbu icefall and evacuated him to a Kathmandu hospital. The Polish climber he was guiding was reported safe, and the episode underscores the extreme dangers of Everest’s death zone during a record-busy season, which has seen multiple fatalities.