He's been frozen on Everest for 30 years, now 'Green Boots' may finally be coming home
India is organizing a high-altitude mission to recover the remains of Dorje Morup, a climber who died on Mount Everest in 1996. His body, known as 'Green Boots,' has served as a grim landmark for climbers for three decades.
Why it matters
The mission highlights the risks of high-altitude mountaineering and the emotional closure sought by families of those lost on Everest.
Image source, Supplied Image caption, The body of an Indian climber who died 30 years ago wearing his green mountaineering boots has become a grim marker along the road to Everest's summit
For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.
The lime mountaineering boots worn by an Indian climber who died in 1996 have been a grim trail marker for many climbers on their way up the world's highest peak ever since.
Now India is looking for a specialist high-altitude recovery team to undertake a complex and risky mission to retrieve what they say is Dorje Morup's body – arguably the most famous of the hundreds whose bodies have been left frozen on the mountain.
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