Green boots, the macabre story of the corpse of an Everest climber

Since May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Nepali Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest for the first time, thousands of climbers from all over the world have tried to emulate the deed.Some have succeeded and others have perished in the attempt.The highest mountain in the world has claimed hundreds of lives and the bodies of those who have died in it many times can not be removed without risking the lives of other montaneros.As we saw in the Lifestyle Hay article More than 150 abandoned bodies on Everest and Today use them as reference points, the sad reality is that there is no interest in rescuing those frozen corpses in the same way that tons of trash are abandoned without the climbers, teams and sponsors pick it up.Join us to meet Green Boots or Green Boots and discover the macabre history of the corpse of an Everest climber .

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So far and until May 2018, 297 people have lost their lives trying to reach the top of Mount Everest.Avalanchas, falls, cardiac arrests, hypothermias,...there are many causes for which you can lose your life climbing to the highest mountain of the world.If this happens, it is very possible that no one will collect your remains and become a reference point or be part of the so-called «Rainbow Valley» which is an area of the mountain that takes its name from the color of the clothes of the bodies of the mountaineers killed in that sector and that no one has withdrawn.

Green boots, the macabre story of the corpse of an Everest climber

Remains of a climber known as" the salutation "

One of those bodies was known as Green Boots or Green Boots and was for years one of those landmarks in the climb up the north face of the mountain.

The disaster of 1996

The year of 1996 is produced one of the saddest episodes of the current "conquests of Everest".With a few hours difference, 8 climbers died on Mount 5 of them belonged to the Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness expeditions that undertook the ascent along the southeast route and 3 to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition that went up the Northeast route from India. Green boots belonged to the latter group.

Green boots, the macabre story of the corpse of an Everest climber

North face of Mount Everest

A snowstorm caught several expeditions both in the process of ascent and descent on the slopes of the mountain and ended the life of these 8 people between May 10 and 11, 1996.On what happened in those 24 hours on the southeast route there are numerous documents, but about what happened to the Indo-Border Police expedition Tibetan, to which Green Boots belonged, there is almost nothing.It was composed of 3 sherpas and 6 climbers, of which three died back from the top of the mountain.

The story of the corpse of an Everest climber

Green boots or Green Boots is the name given to the unidentified corpse of a climber and that served as a reference point in the climbs on the north face of Everest.Each corpse, although there has been no official confirmation, is believed to be the mortal remains of Tsewang Paljor , one of the three Indian expeditionaries of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police group who died in 1996.Paljor was wearing a green riding boots that day.

Green boots, the macabre story of the corpse of an Everest climber

The Green Boots boots

Apparently they managed to reach the top and so they notified him by radio.Two of them started On the descent and a third remained at the top making some offerings.The only subsequent news they had of them were given by members of other expeditions who saw them when they descended in precarious conditions.The corpses of the other two mountaineers, Dorje Morup and Tsewang Samanla were found, but not Paljor's.

Green boots were first located for a while after the misfortune and began to be used by the mountaineers as an indicator.I remain in a fetal position, resting on its left side, in a limestone cave at 8,500 meters altitude.The place was very difficult to access and the corpse was not rescued. Green Boots continued to serve as a guide on the north face of Everest for years.

Green Boots Cave or the Green Boots Cave

In 2006 another climber was joined the unfortunate Green Boots .David Sharp started a solo climb and died of hypothermia when he tried to take refuge in the Green Boots Cave.He was seen alive, sitting in a place near Green Boots by a group I did not help him and continued climbing.Shap died and contrary to what usually happens due to the high costs and great risk involved, his corpse was removed a year later. Green boots I stayed there until in 2014 it was reported that it had disappeared.There were speculations of all kinds, since it had been covered with stones by another climber to whom the Indian government had paid his ransom.

Green boots, the macabre story of the corpse of an Everest climber

Green boots in Green Boots Cave

Nothing was true. Green boots was still there and was again sighted.In 2017, he was finally buried by the team of climbers led by Alexander Abramov of the 7 Summits Club.

Have you heard of Green Boots ? Did you know the existence of these "human landmarks" on the Everest routes? If you want to know more about the highest mountain in the world, we invite you to read the post: 5 IMPACTANTS data on Mount Everest that you should know.

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