The climber was carried down the mountain after getting stuck in an area where temperatures are known to dip to as low as -30C (86F) or lower.
A Malaysian climber was saved from the"death zone" of Mount Everest by Nepali Sherpa guides and another climber.summit on 18 May when he noticed the Malaysian climber clinging to a rope and shivering from the freezing temperatures.
Springing into action, the pair managed to wrap the climber in a sleeping mat and drag him over 600m down from an area of the mountain known as the Balcony, to the South Col - the point between Mount Everest and Lhotse .They had been travelling for around six hours before Ngima Tashi Sherpa, another guide, joined the rescue.
"We wrapped the climber in a sleeping mat, dragged him on the snow or carried him in turns on our backs to camp III," said Gelje Sherpa.May 2019: Highest rugby match ever playedA helicopter then lifted the climber - who is not named for privacy reasons - from the 7,162m high camp III down to base camp.
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