Sherpa's Everest miracle: Six days alone at 25,000 feet with chocolates and ice

Dawa Sherpa suffered severe dehydration, frostbite, and a fractured bone during his six-day ordeal at extreme altitude without adequate oxygen or food.

On the same date Edmund Hillary first stood atop the world, a Nepali guide named Dawa Sherpa disappeared into Everest's silence at 7,600 metres and was given up for dead. Six days later, sustained by pocket chocolates, melted ice, and a lifetime of mountain knowledge, he crawled into base camp — a survival experts call without precedent at such altitude. His ordeal illuminates both the extraordinary resilience of those who have made the Himalayas their home for generations, and the quieter, more troubling question of whose lives the mountain's rescue machinery moves fastest to save.

Sherpa's Everest miracle: Six days alone at 25,000 feet with chocolates and ice

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