{"id":55631,"date":"2023-06-01T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/01\/nepali-sherpa-rescues-malaysian-climber-rare-everest-death-zone-rescue"},"modified":"2023-06-01T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T09:39:02","slug":"nepali-sherpa-saves-climber-in-rare-everest-death-zone-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55631","title":{"rendered":"Nepali sherpa saves climber in rare Everest \u2018death zone\u2019 rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gelje Sherpa was guiding Chinese client to summit when he saw Malaysian climber clinging to rope<\/p>\n<p>A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a very rare high-altitude rescue, a government official has said.<\/p>\n<p>Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849-metre (29,032ft) Everest summit on 18 May when he saw the Malaysian climber clinging to a rope and shivering from extreme cold in the area known as the death zone, where temperatures can dip to -30C or lower.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/01\/nepali-sherpa-rescues-malaysian-climber-rare-everest-death-zone-rescue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gelje Sherpa was guiding Chinese client to summit when he saw Malaysian climber clinging to ropeA Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a very rare high-altitude rescue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,70,608,239,760,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-malaysia","category-mount-everest","category-mountaineering","category-mountains","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55631\/revisions\/55632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}