Kathmandu, June 5 -- In what many are calling a miracle in Mount Everest's Death Zone, Nepali guide Dawa Sherpa (Hillary) was found alive six days after vanishing on the world's highest mountain.

The 56-year-old Dawa from Okhaldhunga disappeared on May 29 in Everest's extremely dangerous "Death Zone." On the morning of the seventh day, he was found near the Khumbu Icefall at a place known as "Crampon Point," crawling down towards Everest Base Camp.

According to mountaineer Chhiring Jangmu Sherpa, surviving for such a long period in extreme cold, with very little oxygen and without food, water, or shelter, is exceptionally rare in Himalayan conditions. "This is an extraordinarily rare event even for the Himalayan region," said Sherpa, an...