Why has the "green shoes" on Mount Everest not been recovered for more than 20 years, and more than 200 corpses left unattended?

Mount Everest has a magical appeal to climbers and outdoor athletes who like to challenge their limits all over the world. For them, not climbing Mount Everest may be a lifelong regret. Therefore, with the improvement of various modern technologies and equipment, and the fact that there are now some professional mountaineering groups as guides, countless ordinary people can realize their dreams of Mount Everest as long as they are willing to spend money.

However, the annual death toll on Mount Everest has remained high. In addition to the harsh environment of Mount Everest, low temperature and lack of oxygen, the main problem now is that there are only a few time periods each year when you can climb Mount Everest. days, and the Nepali government will issue hundreds of climbing permits in a short period of time in order to generate income, so a large number of climbers will flock up, leading to serious congestion in the "death zone" of Mount Everest. The Death Zone? Located above 8,000 meters, the oxygen above this position is only one-third of normal conditions. Even with the assistance of oxygen bottles, the brain and lungs of climbers will still be deprived of oxygen, leading to the risk of heart attack and stroke. increases, and judgment quickly becomes impaired. So in 2019, Everest suffered its highest-ever death toll of 12 people as climbers got stuck in the death zone and got caught in a storm.

Since humans first climbed Mount Everest in 1953, more than 4,800 climbers have climbed to the top of Mount Everest by 2019, so climbing Mount Everest is no longer news, but some of them More than 300 people died here, and most of the bodies were buried on Mount Everest, covered in ice and snow.

However, the climb to the summit of Mount Everest continues every year with undiminished enthusiasm. The corpses lying there became beacons to guide climbers. One of the most famous corpses is the "Green Shoes". Its location is very special and is an important milestone on the way to the top of Mount Everest, because stepping over this corpse will enter the "Death Zone", which means real danger. The arrival also shows that the top of the mountain is right in front of us. "Green Boots" is a corpse that every climber must pass by. He was one of three people killed in a blizzard in 1996. The Story of Green Boots Green Boots? is a corpse wearing green shoes, huddled in a limestone cave on the northeast ridge of Mount Everest. Everyone who passes here must step over his legs. For a long time Humans have no idea who he is, so named due to his particularly eye-catching shoes. Later, after many inquiries, humans learned that this was a 28-year-old Indian man named Caiwang Baldo. He was born on April 10, 1968 in Shakti, India, a small town at the foot of the Himalayas. The eldest son of five brothers and sisters, he dropped out of school in the 10th grade in order to reduce the financial burden on his family. The 28-year-old Bardo is a policeman on the Indo-Tibet border.

He was selected into the Indian Mountaineering Expedition in 1996 and planned to climb Mount Everest on the northern slope of Tibet. In May of the same year, they set out with three other members. But they don't realize that most of them will never leave the mountain.

Among the four people on this expedition, only one survivor was Harajan Singh. As the weather conditions continued to deteriorate during the journey, Singh felt that danger was coming, so he urged three of his team members, including Bardo, to abandon the summit and return to camp. But other team members insisted on reaching the top. However, on the way back we encountered a snowstorm with zero visibility. Baldo may have hid in the cave in panic but could not come out. His green shoes are the most conspicuous of all the remains on Mount Everest, hence the name "Green Boots". The picture above is the medal awarded by India after Bardo's death

In the process of climbing Mount Everest, as long as they pass by the green boots, the climbers know that they have entered the top of the Himalayas, with an altitude of nearly The 8,000-meter "death zone". Compared to the plains, there is only one-third more oxygen. Coupled with low air pressure and extreme cold temperatures, it is extremely difficult for climbers to travel in the death zone. The Mountaineering Code stipulates that climbers can leave victims where they are rather than risk their lives to rescue them. When self-survival is a serious challenge in itself, saving others is naturally a secondary priority.

Why were the bodies on Mount Everest not taken care of?

Let’s first look at a story that caused huge controversy.

Climber David Sharp also joined Green Boots in the same cave. Because he fought alone and did not listen to the advice of his colleagues, the summit failed and he was trapped in the same cave until his death. Unlike Green Boots, when David Sharp was trapped and died, at least 40 people passed by him and saw that he was still alive, but no one helped him. Sharp's death sparked a widespread debate about whether mountaineering is simply about reaching the top, ignoring basic humanities. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, criticized climbers for ignoring the death of David Sharp.

The Himalayas hold the title of the largest open-air cemetery in the world, with nearly 200 corpses still lying in the mountains. It became part of the mountain and was preserved in the ice.

Due to the horrific weather conditions on Mount Everest, especially in the death zone, these bodies are often found fused with the frozen ground. An ordinary man's weight can increase to more than 200 kilograms under constant freezing, so it is very difficult to rescue and move the body. In fact, the rescue operation may have caused many more casualties, including many who died trying to help stranded climbers. Therefore, people on Mount Everest have concluded a truth: there is no humanity on Mount Everest.