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Dawa Sherpa

Miracle on Everest: Sherpa believed dead crawls back to base camp

Nepali guide Dawa Sherpa was last seen at about 7500 metres above sea level. He had little food and no oxygen. His family thought he was dead.

  • Samaan Lateef

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Dawa Sherpa 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.
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Sherpa guide missing for a week on Mount Everest found crawling to base camp

Dawa Sherpa 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.

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Young people are revolting. India’s ‘cockroach’ campaign is just the latest example

Powerful Asian leaders like Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping are preoccupied by the prospect of young people upsetting the social order. They have legitimate cause for concern.

  • Peter Hartcher
18-year-old Bianca Adler shortly before attempting to summit Mount Everest.

Melbourne schoolgirl becomes youngest Australian to conquer Mount Everest

The teenager triumphed on her second attempt, having abandoned a bid to climb the world’s tallest mountain last year due to dangerous weather.

  • Angus Delaney
Neesha Sinnya growing up mixed race in Australia

My grandmother wore a sari every day. But I hid who I really was growing up as a mixed-race Australian

It wasn’t that my Nepalese heritage was too much for Australia to understand – it was too much for me to understand.

  • Neesha Sinnya
Phaplu is an unhurried part of Nepal far from the crowds trekking to Everest.

Despite attracting celebrities, my remote happy place remains relatively unknown

It may have attracted high-profile travellers since the days of Sir Edmund Hillary, but you won’t find tour groups or selfie-takers here.

  • Nina Karnikowski
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The February 21 edition

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The writer on holiday.

Why I’m not apologising for my child-free life after a trip to Nepal

A milestone-birthday trip to a remote region of Nepal reveals traditional ways of life – and some unexpected truths.

  • Nina Karnikowski
Thousands of climbers come to Nepal every year to scale the highest Himalayan mountains.

Nepal travel executives arrested for scamming millions with fake mountain rescues

Fake documents, including passenger and cargo manifests for helicopter flights, medical invoices and hospital reports, were allegedly sent to insurance companies.

  • Binaj Gurubacharya
The author and her father during their trip to Nepal.

I left my husband and kids at home to go trekking with my dad. It changed our relationship

We’d struggled to have deep conversations, until we were alone, thousands of miles from home.

  • Susan Reoch