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He Vanished Near Everest's Death Zone. Six Days Later, Rescuers Found Him Crawling Out of the Khumbu Icefall — Alive.

Hillary Dawa Sherpa, 52, survived six days above 17,000 feet with no food, water or oxygen after a solo fall near Camp 3. Officials are calling it nothing short of a miracle.

LR 作者 Laxman Rawal · 2026年7月27日 · 3 分钟阅读 · 更新于 2026年7月27日

He Vanished Near Everest's Death Zone. Six Days Later, Rescuers Found Him Crawling Out of the Khumbu Icefall — Alive.

Hillary Dawa Sherpa had no food, no water, no bottled oxygen and no idea if anyone was still looking for him. Six days after he vanished above Camp 3, a garbage-collection crew spotted him sliding and crawling down the Khumbu Icefall, one of the most dangerous stretches of ice on the planet — alive.

Key facts

Hillary Dawa Sherpa, 52, a guide with 8K Expeditions, was last seen on 29 May 2026 near Camp 3, roughly 7,500m (24,600ft) up — about 1,600ft below Everest's Death Zone
He was found alive on 4 June, six days later, at the foot of the Khumbu Icefall near Crampon Point, 5,486m (17,999ft)
He had no food, water or supplemental oxygen the entire time, and suffered second-degree frostbite on both little fingers, first-degree frostbite on his right thumb and middle finger, and a fractured femur
He was found by a Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee waste-collection crew, airlifted to HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu, and is now recovering at home

Dawa was descending from a failed summit attempt with a Polish client when the two became separated near Camp 3. What happened next took nearly a week to piece together: he fell into a crevasse near Camp I, at roughly 5,940m (19,500ft), and was trapped there for about two days before managing to climb out. From there he had to descend the Khumbu Icefall alone — a maze of shifting seracs and crevasses normally crossed on fixed ladders that, by the time he reached them, had already been pulled for the season.

Six days on the mountain
When	Where	Altitude
29 May — last seen	Near Camp 3, descending	~7,500m
30–31 May	Trapped in a crevasse near Camp I	~5,940m
1–3 June	Crawling down the Khumbu Icefall, alone	—
4 June — found	Foot of the Icefall, near Crampon Point	5,486m

He was spotted by the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee crew, including team member Lama Kazi Sherpa, who saw a figure "sliding and crawling" toward them near Crampon Point, just above Base Camp. Rescuers on the ground called his survival "astonishing" and "nothing short of a miracle." A helicopter flew him to HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu, where he was reunited with his daughter, Mhendo Lhamo Sherpa. "He recognized me," she told reporters. "He is good and speaks." Nepal's mountaineering authorities have since opened an investigation into the outfitting company that guided the expedition, and a fundraising campaign has been launched so that, in the words of its organisers, Dawa "will never have to put his life in danger again."

What this means for trekkers

The guide's take

Dawa's ordeal happened above Camp 3, deep in Everest's climbing zone — territory none of our treks or peak climbs enter. It's still the clearest reminder we give every client: altitude above roughly 6,000m punishes mistakes fast, teams get separated in whiteout and exhaustion, and the margin for error shrinks with every camp. It's also why an operator's protocols matter as much as the mountain itself — ask any expedition company how they track separated climbers and who stays with whom, before you sign anything.

If Everest's Khumbu region is on your list, most trekkers never go higher than Base Camp itself — you can stand where climbers like Dawa Sherpa set out from without any of the exposure above it. Our 14-day Everest Base Camp trek and Gokyo Ri trek both follow guided, supported routes that stop well short of the terrain in this story.

Source: ABC News

Cover photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

来源： ABC News

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