Missing Everest guide found alive crawling to base camp after family had started funeral arrangements
Posted on: Jun 04, 2026 16:14 IST | Posted by: Cbc
A Sherpa steer was found crawling to alkali tent on put on mount everest a week after he went missing and was reunited with his family, who had given up hope he would return.
Dawa Sherpa was last seen around May 29 descending the mountain, but didn't make it to base camp even though his client did. The pair were among the last climbers on the mountain as the climbing season came to an end and the route was dismantled.
Dawa was located by a cleaning crew Thursday morning as he was crawling down the snowy slopes around the Khumbu Icefall, just above base camp, said Pemba Sherpa of 8K Expeditions, which was co-ordinating the search.
He was quickly carried down to safety and given food and water. A rescue helicopter flew him to HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu, where his wife and daughter, who had already begun funeral rituals, were waiting.
"We first heard that he was still alive on the local news and from a person we know who called with the news that ... He is being brought down," said his wife, Damu Sherpa.
Though Dawa had been missing since last week, organizing a search team hadn't started. No reasons were given for the delay, but when helicopters were finally sent to look for him, they couldn't find him.
His family had already given up hope. Dawa's teenage daughter, Mendo Lhamu Sherpa, said they were already on the second day of a funeral ritual, which lasts for several days.
"When we first heard about it [the rescue], we could not be sure if that person was indeed our father," Mendo Lhamu said. "So to be certain, we asked for photos to be sent, and then only we were sure and very happy."
The team that spotted him was part of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, which lays the ladders and ropes on the route at the start of each climbing season and then removes the equipment and cleans up the site after the climbers have left.
Dawa, 52, works for a small Kathmandu-based company, Himalayan Traverse, and he was guiding a Polish climber. He comes from the town of Okhaldhunga, south of Everest.
More than 1,000 climbers and their guides scaled Everest this May in the busiest climbing season ever on the world's highest mountain. It began late because of a massive ice block on the route just above the base camp that took about two weeks to clear.
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