A Sherpa climbing guide who was believed to have died high on Mount Everest was found crawling back to Base Camp after spending almost a week on the mountain with no food or bottled oxygen. For six days, there had been no radio contact or sign of Hillary Dawa Sherpa, 52, who was last seen on May 29 resting above Camp 3, which sits at 7,060 meters (23,163 feet). He became separated from his client and climbing team, who had already descended and were among the last group on Everest before it closed for the season. The ladders across the Khumbu Icefall, which are carefully fixed by Sherpas to help climbers navigate the most treacherous section of the climb, had already been dismantled, according to one mountaineering company.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/05/travel/everest-rescue-hillary-dawa-sherpa-intl-hnk
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Search-and-rescue volunteers in Japan have found the body of an Auburn University student who went missing during a family vacation, his family said, marking a tragic end to a frantic dayslong search across forested mountains. James “Weston” Higginbotham, 20, was found dead Saturday outside Kyoto, his family announced in a social media post. The cause of death is under investigation, local police told CNN. “Our family is heartbroken to share that Weston was found deceased by a volunteer search-and-rescue group in a mountainous area outside of Kyoto. The grief we feel is impossible to put into words,” the family wrote.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/06/us/james-weston-higginbotham-found-dead
Ukraine launched extensive drone attacks against Russian refineries and military facilities early on Saturday, including several in the St. Petersburg area, where the final day of a Kremlin-sponsored international forum was taking place. Targets included naval facilities, as well as oil depots and terminals, the Ukrainian military said. It’s the second time in the past few days that scores of Ukrainian drones have targeted the Leningrad region. Russia said it downed about 60 over the region early on Wednesday, hours before the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) – often dubbed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s version of Davos.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/06/europe/ukraine-targets-st-petersburg-intl
Pope Leo XIV urged against division and said the world is crying out for peace as he gave a speech after arriving in Spain on Saturday for the first major European trip of his pontificate. “Our age, seemingly shaken by terrible imbalances and conflicts, cries out from its depths for peace,” the pontiff said, in an address in front of King Felipe VI at the Royal Palace in Madrid. The message of peace, he said, “at present unfortunately strikes some as naïve and others as confrontational.” It is, however, welcomed by those “who do not shut themselves off in preconceived ideologies, but are rather open to the truth.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/06/europe/pope-leo-spain-visit-migrants-politics-intl