A Sherpa guide was found crawling to base camp on Mount Everest a week after he went missing and was reunited with his family after they'd given up hope he would return.

A Nepali climbing guide who went missing on Mount Everest for six days and was feared dead has been found alive after crawling back to Base Camp, officials told AFP on Thursday.

Un guide népalais de 30 ans a été retrouvé vivant jeudi sur les pentes du plus haut sommet du monde six jours après avoir été porté disparu et considéré comme mort.