A Nepali climbing guide, Hillary Dawa Sherpa, who went missing on Mount Everest six days ago, has been found alive near Base Camp. He was discovered crawling back after disappearing on the upper slopes of the mountain.

A Nepali climbing guide who went missing on Mount Everest for six days and was feared dead has been found alive after crawling back to Base Camp, officials said on Thursday. The experienced Hillary Dawa Sherpa vanished on the upper reaches of the world’s highest mountain early on May 30. He was found on Thursday morning close to Base Camp by the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), a Nepali team that helps set routes on Everest and clean up waste left behind. “He was crawling down,”...