Against the odds: Nepali cook survives week on Everest after crevasse fall

Dawa Sherpa suffered frostbite, severe dehydration, and a fractured thigh bone during his seven-day ordeal trapped alone on Everest.

In the final days of May, a Nepali cook named Dawa Sherpa descended alone from near the summit of Everest — a mountain he had never before climbed — and fell into a crevasse where he would remain, unseen and unheard, for the better part of a week. He survived on biscuits, frozen chocolate, and ice broken with his teeth, until an avalanche, of all things, filled the void and gave him a floor to climb from. His survival is a testament to human endurance, but it is also a mirror held up to the systems that placed an unprepared man in an unforgiving place — and then failed to find him when he disa

Against the odds: Nepali cook survives week on Everest after crevasse fall

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