base camp
Coverage of base camp in the Nexus archive.
- Sherpa guide missing for a week on Mount Everest rescued while crawling to base camp
A Sherpa guide was found crawling to base camp on Mount Everest a week after he went missing. The rescue occurred as he was making his way down the mountain.
- Missing Mount Everest Sherpa guide found crawling to base camp after family had given up hope
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.
- Guide missing for a week on Mount Everest found alive: "Miracle"
A Sherpa guide was found alive on Mount Everest a week after going missing, crawling toward base camp. The discovery has been described as a 'miracle.'
- Missing Everest guide found alive crawling to base camp after family had started funeral arrangements
A Sherpa guide was found crawling to base camp on Mount Everest a week after he went missing. He was reunited with his family after they had given up hope he would return and had started funeral arrangements.
- Missing Sherpa guide found on Mount Everest after 'miracle' self-rescue
Dawa Sherpa was found crawling towards Base Camp on Mount Everest six days after disappearing at a higher altitude. He survived through a self-rescue effort described as a 'miracle'.
- Missing Sherpa guide found on Mount Everest after 'miracle' self-rescue
Dawa Sherpa, a missing Sherpa guide on Mount Everest, was found by cleaners crawling towards Base Camp six days after he went missing at a higher altitude. He performed a self-rescue, leading to his discovery.
- Missing Mount Everest guide feared dead crawls back to Base Camp after 6 days
A Nepali climbing guide who went missing on Mount Everest for six days and was feared dead has been found alive after crawling back to Base Camp, officials said. The experienced Hillary Dawa Sherpa vanished on the upper reaches of the world’s highest mountain and was found by the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee.
- Ice block stalls hundreds of Everest climbers at base camp
A large unstable ice block (serac) above Mount Everest's base camp has delayed hundreds of climbers and local guides. Officials from Nepal's mountaineering department deemed the route between base camp and camp one too risky, with Himal Gautam confirming the assessment.