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Sherpa missing for a week on Everest found crawling toward base camp after his family begins funeral rites
- Dawa Sherpa was found alive crawling toward base camp nearly a week after vanishing on Everest.
- Rescuers carried him to safety and he received food and water before flying to a Kathmandu hospital.
- The rescue came at the end of a record Everest season with over 1,000 climbers reaching the summit.
- Dawa Sherpa is receiving treatment in Kathmandu for frostbite and other complications.
- His daughter said they learned he was alive through local news and calls from friends.
- Nepal’s Everest season saw many climbers and guides collecting fatalities during the ascent.
- Dawa Sherpa was found in the Khumbu Icefall, a known danger zone on the descent route.
- The family was in the middle of funeral rites when the rescue news arrived.
- The company organizing climbs described the survival as nothing short of a miracle.
- The rescue underscores Everest's extreme risks despite a high-season turnout.
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