Updates on search for missing Deaf mountaineer Hawari
The search for missing deaf mountaineer Muhammad Hawari Hashim, who is from Malaysia, is still going on at Mt. Everest.
According to a report from the New Straits Times, as of May 29, the mountain is “closed” to climbers because it is the end of the climbing season, but the Malaysian embassy in Nepal got an agreement from Nepalese authorities to grant five more days for crews to search for Hawari.
A video report from a deaf news outlet named BIMTV explained that search crews will use advanced drones to try and find Hawari, who may have fallen into a crevasse. Check out this clip.
[Video clip, Credit: Instagram/BIMTVChannel]
BIMTV: The crew will go up with advanced drones that were sent from Malaysia. They have arrived in Nepal. (Video clip showing crews inspecting the drones). The drones can help to find Hawari because it has technology that can detect body heat and has capabilities to see through obstacles.
Thank you to BIMTV for the updates.
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To review what happened, Hawari scaled Mt. Everest on May 18 while being a part of the Malaysian Mission Everest 2023 team. The expedition leader’s name is Azim Afif Ishak. He posted an image of Hawari on the Everest summit.
[Full-screen image, Credit: Instagram/azimafifishak]
After Hawari summited, he descended to Camp 4. One of the other Malaysian climbers was injured and needed rescue at the summit. When others went to rescue him, it appears that Hawari was left alone. He went missing on May 19.
That climber who needed rescue later died after a fall. His name was Awang Askandar Ampuan Yaacub and he was a lieutenant colonel.
[Full screen image, Credit: Nepal Time]
Another Malaysian climber named T. Ravichandran told Malaysian news that on May 14, four days before Hawari summited, he saw that Hawari was climbing the mountain alone with no sherpa accompanying him. He said this was not normal and that there needs to be an investigation into what happened. Ravichandran himself did summit Everest on May 17 with a different team and suffered an injury afterward and was rescued.
Reuters reported that a Nepali sherpa guide named Geljie Sherpa was guiding a Chinese client to the summit when he saw a Malaysian climber clinging to a rope and shivering from extreme cold. Geljie said he convinced his client to give up his summit attempt so he could rescue the climber. He and another sherpa carried the injured Malaysian climber on their backs down to Camp 3, where a helicopter came to transport the climber to get medical attention.
Reuters did not name the Malaysian climber, but Ravichandran posted on Instagram that Geljie and other sherpas saved him, saying he would never forget it and that he wouldn’t be alive if not for them.
It would be a miracle if Hawari is found alive after almost two weeks. According to news reports, Hawari has a wife and two children aged 4 and 1.
https://www.instagram.com/bimtvchannel/
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2023/05/914539/search-hawari-everest-resumes-drones