{"id":10714,"date":"2023-06-01T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/?p=10714"},"modified":"2023-06-01T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:04:35","slug":"nepali-sherpa-saves-malaysian-climber-in-rare-everest-death-zone-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/nepali-sherpa-saves-malaysian-climber-in-rare-everest-death-zone-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepali Sherpa Saves Malaysian Climber in Rare Everest \u2018Death Zone\u2019 Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a \u201cvery rare\u201d high altitude rescue, a government official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) Everest summit on May 18 when he saw the Malaysian climber clinging to a rope and shivering from extreme cold in the area called the \u201cdeath zone\u201d, where temperatures can dip to minus 30 degrees Celsius (86F) or lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gelje hauled the climber 600 metres (1,900 feet) down from the Balcony area to the South Col, over a period of about six hours, where Nima Tahi Sherpa, another guide, joined the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe wrapped the climber in a sleeping mat, dragged him on the snow or carried him in turns on our backs to camp III,\u201d Gelje said.<br>A helicopter using a long line then lifted him from the 7,162-metre (23,500 feet) high Camp III down to base camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSaving one life is more important than praying at the monastery,\u201d said Gelje, a devout Buddhist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a \u201cvery rare\u201d high altitude rescue, a government official said on Wednesday. Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) Everest summit on May 18 when he saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":10715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[447,476],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10714"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=10714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}