[everest] Mount Everest, a climber known only as ‘Green Boots’, and the mission to solve a 30-year mystery … The haunting story of a climber who died on Everest and remained unrecovered in the mountain’s death zone. ‘Named after his lime-coloured Koflach boots, Green Boots became a landmark for climbers tackling the tricky north-east ridge route, accessed from the Tibet and China side of the world’s tallest mountain. Curled up as if napping, Green Boots is fully clothed and lies nestled under a small rocky alcove about 8,500 metres above sea level and just 350 metres from the summit. A red fleece is pulled up over his face; perhaps a final act as he succumbed to -30C temperatures and hurricane-force winds in a storm that was documented in Jon Krakauer’s bestselling book Into Thin Air.’
Recovering Green Boots
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