Nepalese guide found alive after week missing on Mount Everest

One mountain guide experienced week-long survival ordeal at extreme altitude without adequate food and oxygen supply.

On the slopes of the world's highest mountain, where the air holds only a third of the oxygen available at sea level, a Nepalese sherpa defied the cold arithmetic of survival — found alive after seven days lost on Everest, six of them without food or supplemental oxygen. His rescue, the result of a coordinated search across one of Earth's most unforgiving terrains, is less a triumph of individual will than a reminder of how thin the margin is between living and dying at altitude. It also quietly illuminates a deeper truth: the men who make Everest's famous summits possible often do so in condi

Nepalese guide found alive after week missing on Mount Everest

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