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Family questions rescue efforts for Sherpa guide found alive on Everest, seeks legal action
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Sherpa survives 6-day Everest ordeal sans food, O2
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Sherpa guide missing on Mount Everest for a week found crawling toward base camp
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Sherpa guide’s family files official complaint after ‘miracle’ rescue on Mount Everest
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Man presumbed dead survives week on Mount Everest without food or oxygen
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Mount Everest: Missing Sherpa found alive after 6 days
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Sherpa missing for a week on Everest found crawling toward base camp after his family begins funeral rites
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Nepali Mount Everest guide found alive after being missing for six days
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No oxygen and just a few chocolates: Sherpa describes miracle Everest survival
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