A mountaineer was saved from the "death zone" in a rare "almost impossible" rescue mission on Mount Everest.
Nepali guide Gelje Sherpa found a Malaysian climber shivering and clutching a rope in the area of the world's highest mountain called the "death zone", where temperatures can dip to -30C.
The sherpa was guiding another client to the Everest summit on 18 May when he noticed the unnamed climber clinging to a rope and shivering from the freezing temperatures.
