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A Sherpa guide was found crawling to base camp on Mount Everest a week after he went missing and was reunited with his family who had given up hope he would return.<\/p>\n

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Dawa Sherpa was last seen around May 29 descending the mountain, but he did not reach base camp even though his client did. The pair were among the last climbers on the mountain as the climbing season came to an end and the route was dismantled.<\/p>\n

Dawa was located by a cleaning crew Thursday morning as he was crawling down the snowy slopes around the Khumbu Icefall, just above base camp, said Pemba Sherpa of 8K Expeditions, which coordinated the search.<\/p>\n

He was quickly carried down to safety and given food and water. A rescue helicopter flew him to HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu, where his wife and daughter, who already had begun funeral rituals for him, were waiting.<\/p>\n

“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,” said his wife, Damu Sherpa.<\/p>\n

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Though Dawa had been missing since last week, there was a delay in organizing a search team. No reasons were given for the delay, but when helicopters were finally sent to look for him, they could not find him.<\/p>\n

His family had given up hope. Dawa\u2019s teenage daughter, Mendo Lhamu Sherpa, said they were on the second day of a funeral ritual, which lasts for several days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we first heard about it (the rescue), we could not be sure if that person was indeed our father,\u201d Mendo Lhamu said. \u201cSo to be certain we asked for photos to be sent and then only we were sure and very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The team that spotted him was part of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, which lays the ladders and ropes on the route at the start of each climbing season and then removes the equipment and cleans up the site after climbers have left.<\/p>\n

Dawa was last seen at a spot called Yellow Band above Camp 3, which is located at 7,200 meters (23,622 feet). The base camp is at 5,300 meters (17,388 feet).<\/p>\n

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Dawa, 52, works for a small Kathmandu-based company called Himalayan Traverse, and he was guiding a Polish climber. He comes from the town of Okhaldhunga, south of Everest.<\/p>\n

Nepal’s mountaineering community has hailed Dawa’s survival as miraculous.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is nothing short of a miracle surviving so many days on the mountains facing such harsh condition,\u201d said Ang Tshering Sherpa, a leading figure in the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cSherpas are built tough growing up in the mountains,\u201d Ang Tshering said. \u201cIf there was someone else in his place they might not have survived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of the Sherpa community were mostly yak herders and traders living deep within the Himalayas until Nepal opened its borders in the 1950s. Their stamina and familiarity with the mountains quickly made them sought-after guides and porters, eventually allowing them to dominate the Himalayan climbing business.<\/p>\n

More than 1,000 climbers and their guides scaled Everest this May, which was the busiest climbing season ever on the world’s highest mountain. It began late because of a massive ice block on the route just above the base camp that took about two weeks to clear.<\/p>\n

The 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) high peak was first climbed on May 29, 1953, by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay.<\/p>\n

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