A Malaysian man trapped in Mount Everest's "death zone", an area where temperatures can reach -30C, was rescued in a rare operation after being found shivering from extreme cold by Nepali guide Gelje Sherpa.

Sherpa found the climber while guiding a client to the Everest summit and bravely carried him down from 8,500m above sea level. It took him and other guides who joined later, six hours to bring the man to safety.

The footage shows the guide wrapping the climber in a sleeping mat before descending the world's highest mountain above sea level.

A helicopter then lifted the man from the 7,162m (23,500ft) high camp III down to base camp.

The operation was described as "very rare" by Nepali tourism official Bigyan Koirala, due to the challenges to rescue people at that altitude.

The footage was filmed on May 18.

Video courtesy - Gelje Sherpa

It’s a Near to Death Rescue of a Malaysian climber , which narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a "very rare" high altitude rescue.
Gelje Sherpa ( 30 years) was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) Everest summit on May 18 when he saw the Malaysian climber clinging to a rope and shivering from extreme cold in the area called the "death zone", where temperatures can dip to minus 30 degrees Celsius (86F) or lower.
Talking to Newflare Gelje Sherpa gave details of rescue – He tells it took him around 5-6 hours from the Balcony area to the South Col , where Nima Tahi Sherpa, another guide, joined the rescue. I hauled the climber around 600 metres down from balcony area to south col.
We wrapped the climber in a sleeping mat dragged him on the snow also carried him in turns on our backs to camp III
I also gave him my oxygen which I was carrying , I was all on my own , I have to bring him own down , it was a hard thing to do . He says that , I did around 55 rescue in my life but this is the hardest rescue in my life , but I did very easily because I had a training .
After the rescue the first world which the climber says to me – he said that he need some water , after that I asked him that do he knows me ? he says yes you are Geljer