Sherpa hospitalised with frostbite to his fingers after trying to save missing S'porean climber on Everest

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A search and rescue operation is underway for the missing Singaporean climber.

May 23, 2023

Mr Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya’s family members have also gone to Nepal to meet the rescue teams, added Mr Prakash Chandra Devkota, the owner of Nepal Guide Treks and Expedition. Mr Devkota told The Straits Times on Monday that teams consisting of three Sherpas each have been searching for the 39-year-old.In the photos, Mr Shrinivas, a senior manager for software engineering at real estate tech firm JLL Technologies, is wearing bright orange winter wear, sunglasses and an oxygen mask, surrounded by colourful prayer flags marking the 8,849m summit.In another picture, Mr Shrinivas lies on his back, surrounded by three others in similar mountain climbing wear.

But he told her he had high-altitude cerebral edema, a severe type of high-altitude illness that could prove fatal, andMadam Soma, a musician, learnt at 2am on Saturday that the two Sherpas he was with, and another climber in the group, had made it down from the mountain, but her husband never did.The man in a black T-shirt, whom the speaker off-camera referred to as “Martin”, said the group reached the summit at around 9am.

 

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