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Everest guide survived six-day ordeal by eating chocolate and 'chewing ice'

  • Nepali guide Dawa Sherpa was found crawling down Everest six days after being presumed dead — he says he survived by chewing ice and eating a few chocolates from his pocket.
  • He was trapped in a crevasse for days, escaped after an avalanche helped fill it, then slowly made his way down until a cleanup team found him near Base Camp.
  • Airlifted to Kathmandu with dehydration, frostbite and a fractured bone; his family had even begun last rites and are now relieved as doctors say he’s stable.
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