THE REVENANT:
‘I didn’t eat anything for the first two days. Then I began chewing ice. It hurt my teeth. I chewed the ice hard,’ Dawa Sherpa said
AFP, KATHMANDU
A Nepalese mountaineer who survived nearly a week on Mount Everest said he “chewed ice” to stay alive as he recovered in a hospital after a miraculous rescue that stunned the climbing community. Dawa Sherpa, 57, disappeared in brutal conditions on the upper slopes of the world’s tallest mountain on May 30 during one of the final climbs of the spring season. With few climbers still on the peak and his oxygen exhausted, relatives had given up hope and begun ritual mourning prayers, believing he had died on the mountain.
Karma Gyaljen, a relative of mountaineer Dawa Sherpa, shows a photograph of him undergoing treatment at HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu on Friday.
