Nepali guide rescues M'sian climber from Everest death zone
'When I found him in that state, my heart did not let me leave him there,' Gelje Sherpa told AFP
Instead, only a few hundred metres from the summit, they came across a lone man clinging to a rope and shivering in the area known as the "death zone". The rocky uneven terrain meant that Sherpa, who is about 1.6 metres tall and weighs 55 kilograms, had to carry the Malaysian in some sections."It is a very difficult task to carry someone and bring them down from there. But some sections are very rocky, I couldn't drag him," said Sherpa.Sherpa hauled the man down nearly 700 metres for almost six hours to Camp 4 by himself.
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