Don't know the helicopter type, but it belonged to the Nepalese army
and was piloted by a gent named Madan, who twice flew to above 21,000
feet to rescue two Everest climbers in the spring of 1996. See John
Krakauer's Into Thin Air, a very fine book.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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