Family of Everest ‘miracle’ survivor demands probe into delayed rescue as Nepali climber recovers in Kathmandu after six days stranded on the mountain.

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.

Dawa Sherpa was last seen around May 29 descending the mountain, but while he did not reach base camp, his client did.

Dawa Sherpa, 52, was returning with a European climber when he went missing between Camp III and Camp IV, on May 29. He returned alive on June 4. | India News

Dawa Sherpa, 52, was returning with a Polish climber after failing to reach the 8,849 meter (29,032 ft) summit, when he went missing between Camp III and Camp IV.

Nepali guide Hillary Dawa Sherpa went missing near the so-called ‘Death Zone’ where oxygen levels are too low to sustain human life for long

A Nepalese Sherpa miraculously survived for nearly a week after going missing on May 29

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In what climbers are calling a miracle, a 52-year-old Sherpa guide who was presumed dead in Mount Everest after he vanished during descent on May 29 was found alive after six days…

Dawa Sherpa, 52, vanished on May 29 as he made his way down Mount Everest - his family were midway through his funeral service when they heard he had been rescued

A Mount Everest sherpa, who had been missing for six days, was found alive.

The Nepali guide had been missing on the mountain for six days, and his family had begun preparing funeral rites. Then base camp workers saw something remarkable.

A Sherpa climbing guide who was believed to have died high on Mount Everest was found crawling back to Base Camp after spending almost a week on the mountain with no food or…

Nepali Everest guide Dawa Sherpa, feared dead after going missing during descent, was found alive six days later in the “death zone,” astonishing rescuers and the mountaineering…

A Sherpa guide who survived a week on Mount Everest's slopes is recovering in a Nepal hospital

Family of Everest ‘miracle’ survivor demands probe into delayed rescue as Nepali climber recovers in Kathmandu after six days stranded on the mountain.

Mountaineer Dawa Sherpa vanished in bitter conditions on the upper reaches of the world’s highest mountain early on May 30.

Mountaineer Dawa Sherpa, 57, vanished in bitter conditions on the upper reaches of the world’s highest mountain early on May 30.

Dawa Sherpa surgiu com vida após buscas serem encerradas e parentes iniciarem ritos fúnebres; esposa acusa empresa de demora na operação

When helicopters were finally sent to look for him, they could not find him