Sherpa downplays mountaineer's 'late thank you' as misunderstanding

Mount Everest recently became the backdrop for mounting controversy sparked by a delayed expression of gratitude by Malaysian climber T Ravichandran, who was saved from “death’s door”, to his rescuer.

Stepping forward to shed light on the situation, his rescuer, Gelje Sherpa, attributed the controversy to a simple misunderstanding that gained unwarranted attention.

Without going into details...