Nepali climber alive after six days missing on Everest

KATHMANDU — A Nepali climbing guide who went missing on Mount Everest for six days and was believed dead has been found alive after crawling alone almost to Base Camp, officials told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday. His wife had even begun to offer last rite prayers for his soul, she told AFP at the hospital in the capital Kathmandu, where he is recovering from “some frostbite” but is conscious. Mountaineer Dawa Sherpa — who is in his 50s, and is better known as &l