KATHMANDU (AFP): A Malaysian climber rescued after two nights in the open on one of the world’s most treacherous mountains is fighting for his life, his doctor said Friday (April 26).

Chin Wui Kin, 48, was airlifted to a hospital in Kathmandu for treatment in the morning after rescuers brought him down to a lower camp in a risky operation close to the summit of Mount Annapurna. 

”His heart rate and temperature were both very low when we received him. He is suffering from severe hypothermia and has frostbite on his hands and feet,” Sanij Singh, emergency physician at Mediciti Hospital, told AFP.

”His condition is critical... we are doing what we can.”

Chin, 48, reached the top of the 8,100m (26,500-foot) Himalayan mountain on Tuesday (April 23) but failed to return to the nearest camp, one kilometre below the peak, with the rest of his group.