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A Sherpa guide, Dawa Sherpa, who was missing on Mount Everest for a week, was found alive crawling down toward base camp near the Khumbu Icefall and airlifted to a hospital; his client had reached base camp as the climbing season wound down.
A large ice block in the Khumbu Icefall above Everest Base Camp has become unstable, delaying hundreds of climbers and guides as authorities assess the risk and wait for the ice to melt to safer levels; with 410 foreign permits issued for the spring season, officials plan aerial surveys and expect a weather window next month amid ongoing avalanche risk and the history of deadly incidents in the icefall.
Three Sherpa climbers are missing after falling into a deep crevasse on Mount Everest's Khumbu Icefall. The area is considered one of the most difficult and tricky sections of the climb to the peak. A rescue helicopter is trying to locate them while rescuers searched on foot. The incident occurred during the main climbing season that began in March and ends at the end of May.
Three Sherpa climbers are missing after falling into a 160-foot deep crevasse on Mount Everest's Khumbu Icefall. The area is considered one of the most difficult and tricky sections of the climb to the peak. A rescue helicopter is trying to locate them while rescuers search on foot. The incident occurred as hundreds of foreign climbers and Nepalese guides and helpers attempt to scale the mountain during the main climbing season.
Three Sherpa climbers are missing after falling into a deep crevasse on a treacherous section of Mount Everest just above the base camp. The area is the Khumbu Icefall, a constantly shifting glacier with deep crevasses and huge overhanging ice that can be as big as 10-story buildings. A rescue helicopter was trying to locate them while rescuers searched on foot.