A helicopter made a precarious rescue at one of the camps down the mountain. It did not land on top.
I've seen pictures of one of the base camps used by those trekking up Everest. It has an airstrip.
Now, looking at pictures of that airstrip a few interesting things came to mind:
1. It had a very short runway--almost looked like Ultra-lights should be using it, rather than full size aircraft.
2. The runway sloped downward and ended on a cliff. The only way to take off was to go downhill off the cliff.
3. There was a *lot* of aircraft wreckage on either side of the runway ( probably decades worth ). Some of it looked like it was pushed off to the side.
'Precarious' is an interesting word to describe it, lol.
29,000 feet is an awfully high service ceiling for a helicopter, I would think.