The most famous stranger on the world's tallest mountain finally has a name.
For years, climbers on Everest's north route used one grim sight as a trail marker. What was it?
A dead climber's body Nicknamed Green Boots for his bright green climbing boots, he lay curled up in a small limestone cave littered with oxygen bottles, and every expedition from the north side walked right past him.
Struggling down from Everest's summit with frostbitten hands, what did one climber flat out refuse to put on?
Gloves A teammate later wrote that Dorje Morup, an Indian border police climber caught in a deadly blizzard, also had trouble unclipping his safety line as he inched down the ridge.
A British climber lay dying in the very same cave as the famous body. Why did dozens of passing climbers barely notice him?
Mistook him for Green Boots David Sharp froze to death there while roughly three dozen climbers passed by, and some who saw him likely assumed he was the landmark corpse.
One stretch below Everest's summit is strewn with bodies in brightly colored climbing jackets. What cheerful nickname does it have?
Rainbow Valley Green Boots is one of roughly two hundred bodies left on Everest, and a few others earned nicknames too, like the climber known as Sleeping Beauty.
Nearly three decades after he died, what does India now plan to do for the famous Everest body?
Bring him home Indian authorities identified Green Boots as Dorje Morup, not his teammate Tsewang Paljor as most people believed, and are hiring expert high-altitude climbers so his family can finally hold his funeral rites.
