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Sherpa Rescued After Missing a Week on Everest Without Food or Oxygen
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A Sherpa guide who had been missing on Mount Everest for nearly a week was found alive, crawling toward base camp. He was reunited with his family, who had already begun funeral rituals under the assumption that he had died.
Dawa survived alone for nearly a week without food, water or supplemental oxygen navigating the treacherous Khumbu Icefall (even after the fixed ladders were removed for the season).
He is in intensive care, but out of danger.
Foreign climbers assume we are invincible — a dangerous mindset but a common one. When a client is told by an elite guide to move ahead so they can rest, they trust that expertise. Thrall made a textbook survival choice under brutal conditions.
It is absolutely shameful that Himalayan Traverse left him behind in the closing rush. This is the dark side of commercial Everest — when the clock runs out, the commercial teams vanish, and guides become disposable. Dawa saved himself; his agency gave him no chance.
If there was someone else in his place, they might not have survived.
Sherpas are built tough growing up in the mountains.
This is nothing short of a miracle surviving so many days on the mountains facing such harsh conditions.
Two days in a deep crevasse below Camp I after a full week in the death zone? Surviving on ice and one packet of biscuits at that altitude is an unbelievable feat of mental strength. Most people lay down and accept the end, but Dawa chose to fight. He is a tiger of the mountains.
So to be certain, we asked for photos to be sent, and then only we were sure and very happy.
When we first heard about it, we could not be sure if that person was indeed our father.
He recognised me ... is good and speaks.
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.
sources
- 1.The Times of India
- 2.Golf News
- 3.Euronews
- 4.ABC News
- 5.Sweden Herald
- 6.The Guardian
- 7.Al Jazeera
- 8.The Irish Times
- 9.Agence France-Presse
- 10.Associated Press
- 11.Reuters
perspectives
countries
organizations
- 1.British Royal Marines
- 2.Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee
- 3.HAMS Hospital
- 4.8K Expeditions
- 5.Instagram
- 6.Dawa Party
persons
- 1.Pasang Dawa Sherpa
- 2.Mhendo Lhamo Sherpa
- 3.Pemba Sherpa
- 4.Chris Thrall
- 5.Damu Sherpa
- 6.Dawa 'Hillary' Sherpa
- 7.Edmund Hillary
- 8.Ang Tshering Sherpa
- 9.Gelje Sherpa
- 10.Kazi Sherpa
- 11.Mingma Sherpa
- 12.Navesh Chitrakar