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Sometimes scrolling on social media you can come across some interesting information.
Today I learned that on Mount Everest there are over 200 dead bodies and that they do not remove them. I thought “No way this is real” and began to do some research.
Sure enough I found this article on business insider that I informed me on why here bodies are not removed. Maybe I’m late to the game in this information, I don’t know.
This goes out to all the folks like myself who had no clue about any of this.
I don’t usually fill up a read full of sources, but they said it best, so be sure to visit their pages!
When people die on Everest, it can be difficult to remove their bodies. Final repatriation costs tens of thousands of dollars (in some cases, around $70,000) and can also come at a fatal price itself: two Nepalese climbers died trying to recover a body from Everest in 1984. Instead, bodies are often left lying on the mountain.
From a source on Facebook I also found interesting stories about some of these bodies to share with you.
The Stories About the Dead Bodies
Green boots- sadly green boots has never officially been identified but he is believed to be Tsewang Paljor, an Indian climber who died on Everest in 1996. The term Green Boots originated from the green Koflach mountaineering boots on his feet.
David Sharp was attempting to summit Everest on his own. He had stopped to rest in Green Boots’ cave, as so many had done before him. Over the course of several hours, he froze to death, his body stuck in a huddled position. at least 40 people passed by Sharp that day and saw that we was in distress. Not one of them stopped.
George Mallory’s corpse was found 75 years after his 1924 death. Mallory had attempted to be the first person to climb Everest, but he disappeared before anyone found out if he had achieved his goal. His body was found in 1999, his upper torso, half of his legs, and his left arm almost perfectly preserved
Hannelore Schmatz she came the first german and first woman to perish on the mountain. Schmatz had actually reached her goal of…
