#green boots

[themancorialist]

Fountain Street, Manchester.

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[andrewbootmann]

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Neon Cowboys Green "Out Past Midnight Boots"

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A fox! And he has green boots :)

AWEEEEE HE'S ADORABLE 💖💖

And those green boots!!! 🥺

Thank you for this wonderful bean I will make sure to cherish him :3 does he have a name?

[alendesy]

Inktober Day 8 • Hike

Green boots on the main Northeast ridge route on the Mount Everest

[devdas5z]

Fashion Nova

[themancorialist]

Oak Street, Manchester.

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Green Boots

The body of “Green Boots,” an Indian climber who died on Everest in 1996 and is believed to be Tsewang Paljor - although the body has not been officially identified - lies near a cave that all climbers must pass on their way to the peak. Green Boots now serves as a waypoint marker that climbers use to gauge how near they are to the summit. Green Boots met his end after becoming separated from his party. He sought refuge in a mountain overhang, but to no avail. He sat there shivering in the cold until he died.

The term Green Boots originated from the green Koflach mountaineering boots on his feet. All expeditions from the north side encounter the body curled in the limestone alcove cave at 8,500 m (27,900 ft) - very close to the summit.

The first recorded video footage of Green Boots was filmed on 21 May 2001 by French climber Pierre Paperon. In the video, Green Boots is shown lying on his left side, facing toward the summit. According to Paperon, Sherpas told him that it was the body of a Chinese mountaineer who had attempted the climb six months earlier.

Over time, the corpse became known both as a landmark on the north route and for its association with the death of David Sharp. In May 2014, Green Boots’ body was reported to be missing from view, presumably removed or buried. It reappeared, however, in 2017.

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why are there so many green boots in the world and why do i love them all??? i have 2 pairs of green boots already plus one pair of "navy" boots that are actually pretty dang green.

its just such a neat color for shoes.

ANYWAY

Grant Stone just dropped their cap toe Garrison boot in a beautiful dark green kudu.

Which would be very tempting to me except they already sell the Garrison in this gorgeous Olive Minerva Box veg tan that I like better.

Both are $395. Ive been tempted by these Olive boys for the past year or so since they dropped. I also am just not in love with the pattern of this boot (i dont love the rounded top and I wish it had speed hooks) so I never bought them and PROBABLY never will.

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Patricia-Ann Que: favourite boots

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[devdas5z]

[icarus-suraki]

Here's some examples of the current state of Everest (photos not mine):

There is literally a Disneyworld-size line to summit and there are trash dumps all the way up. It's appalling.

From the article:

The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first reached the summit of Mount Everest has said the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected. Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was one of the 35 members of the team that helped the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay to the top of the 8,849-metre (29,032ft) peak on 29 May 1953. “It would be better for the mountain to reduce the number of climbers,” Kanchha said in an interview in Kathmandu on Saturday. “Right now, there is always a big crowd of people at the summit.” Since the Hillary-Tenzing expedition, the peak has been climbed thousands of times, and it has become more crowded every year. During the spring climbing season in 2023, 667 climbers scaled the peak, bringing in thousands of support staff to the base camp between March and May. There have been concerns about the number of people living on the mountain for months on end, but authorities have no plans to cut down on the number of permits they issue to climbers. Rules require climbers to bring down their own rubbish, equipment and everything they carry to the mountain, or risk losing their deposit, but monitoring has not been effective. “It is very dirty now. People throw tins and wrappings after eating food. Who is going to pick them up now?” Kanchha said. “Some climbers just dump their trash in the crevasse, which would be hidden at that time, but eventually it will flow down to base camp as the snow melts and carries them downward.” For the Sherpa people, Everest is Qomolangma, or goddess mother of the world, and is revered by their community. They usually perform religious rituals before climbing the peak. “They should not be dirtying the mountain. It is our biggest god and they should not be dirtying the gods,” Kanchha said. “Qomolangma is the biggest god for the Sherpas, but people smoke and eat meat and throw them on the mountain.”

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