#tsewang paljor

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There are an estimated 200 bodies on Mt. Everest, Earth's tallest peak, and climbers often use them as markers to determine how close they are to the top.

These are three of the four most well-known bodies that currently are, or were at one time, on the mountain:

"Green Boots": the real identity of the body climbers refer to as "Green Boots" is presumed to be Tsewang Paljor, who perished in 1996. Not pictured here is the body of David Sharpe, who, when he stopped at Green Boots' cave to rest, slowly froze to death, even while approximately 40 other climbers passed by him dying and did nothing to help.

Hannelore Schmatz became the first German and the first woman to die on the mountain. She succeeded in reaching the summit, but ignored the warnings of her Sherpa on the way back down and camped overnight in the death zone. While she did survive the night, she finally succumbed to exhaustion, low oxygen, and frostbite on her way back to base camp, dying just 330 feet from safety. Her body is no longer visible on the mountain and has either been swept away by the high winds or buried under the snow.

George Mallory was the first person to attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 1924, using "primitive climbing equipment and heavy oxygen bottles." His upper torso, half of his legs, and his left arm were found in 1999. He was dressed in a tweed suit and a rope injury around his waist suggested he'd been climbing with someone else when they fell off a cliff.

[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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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.

[thelightfrombelow-blog1]

Working hard and doing what is right gets you to the middle of a lightless pit. You can make it half way, but you’ll only fall back down; it’s too slick to hold on.

It’s those in the middle though that are forgotten, no one cares until we fall and then only if we stay down.

Those on the left and on the right pretend to be enemies, but there is no political divide, at least not really. What there is however, is a class divide. Do you really think any of those onlookers care about what is in the middle of the well we are in? they care about two things, and that is who is beside them and who is on the bottom because even through the light, that is all they see, not to mention it is easier to help and to appease those with less than those that get by.

I could give and make up 100 euphemisms for our society and it would still end up the same. The middle class is merely markers for the rest. We are green boots (or thought to be Tsewang Paljor, though that is only known to those that put effort into finding out).

The truth is, us in the middle are forgotten and while politicians announce plans to help the middle class, to give us refunds, to ensure our prosperity, to make us better, the truth is that when we work hard and we do what is right, we get by and we live mostly unimportant lives before leaving forever, a life that we get only one of and have no legacy from.

There is hard working as well as lazy and handout abusing in all levels of society and that itself isn’t bothersome. Nepotism in itself doesn’t bother me, richness in absurd amounts to single individuals doesn’t bother me, I am not jealous at least mostly. I am envious however and that may be a personal trait that I need to change, but I do get envious of the rich who never have to worry and can have anything they want when they want it and to a lesser amount I am envious of the minority lower class that merely feed off the system and cry for more without a day of work given. I am no saint and there are so many that work harder and get less for it, for those I feel remorse for.

We are not a political caste, we are a wealth divided one and we always have been. In closing, it isn’t that I regret the work I do every day that invades my own mind, it is the fact that those above us who control us don’t actually care about us and they never will.

The middle class is forgotten. We work the hardest and gain the least from it. We get by and live paycheck to paycheck. We can’t afford homes of our own, we have to choose one or two hobbies, we can’t afford children, eating out is a luxury, a vacation means hell for the time before and after, six figures barely makes it these days, we are lost and in a vicious cycle. Is it a California problem or a country problem? I am not sure, but I do know that this isn’t sustainable and we need to change. We can’t keep this up.

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Since his death from exposure on 11 May 1996, "Green Boots" (widely believed to be Indian climber Tsewang Paljor) has served as a trail marker on the main northwest ridge route to the peak of Mount Everest.

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The Many Deaths on Mount Everest

April 03, 2022

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world, above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal of the Himalayas. The China and Nepal border runs across Mount Everests’ summit point, and in 2020, the Chinese and Nepali authorities declared the mountain’s elevation to be 29,031.69 feet (8,848.86 meters). 

Many people attempt to climb Mount Everest, most being experts at climbing and hiking. While many people try to climb this mountain, hundreds have died during their journey. Some estimate that there are more than 200 bodies currently trapped on the mountain and hard conditions means that not every body can be recovered. In 2019, 891 people summited Mount Everest and there were 11 deaths. 

Here are a few stories of those whose lives tragically ended during their journey. 

Hannelore Schmatz

Hannelore Schmatz, a German mountaineer was the fourth woman in history to reach Mount Everest’s summit in 1979. Her husband, 50 year old Gerhard, was the oldest person to ever reach the mountains peak. Years before this journey, the pair had been preparing, through climbing other mountains, including Manaslu, which is only 2,300 feet shorter than Mount Everest. The couple would climb a mountain every year until 1979. 

The couple had six other professional climbers with them at the time. The couple had reached the South Col camp at 26,200 feet on September 24, 1979 and set up camp. However, a blizzard that lasted days hit and forced them back down the mountain. 

The couple split up at one point, with Gerhard’s group making it back to South Col first, beginning to travel to Mount Everest’s peak. They reached the summit on October 1, but were forced back down due to weather conditions. 

A descending group had warned Hannelore and her team that the conditions were too dangerous to continue. However, this did not stop Hannelore and she continued on at 5 am the next day. Gerhard made it to their base camp and heard through the radio that his wife had made it to the top. 

On the way down, Hannelore and another climber, Ray Genet, were overcome with exhaustion, and even though they were warned, they decided to build a camp. Their shelter was built in the Death Zone. Ray died from hypothermia, leading Hannelore to frantically descend, however having no more energy she ended up slumping against her backpack and died. Her last words were, “water...water.” 

Hannelore Schmatz was the first woman and first German to die on Mount Everest. Her body, like many others have been guides to other climbers. The wind on the mountain eventually threw Hannelore’s corpse off the side of the Kangshung Face. 

David Sharp

In 2006, a man named David Sharp wanted to make his third attempt at climbing Mount Everest. On May 14, David was near the top when he told his other climbers that he wanted to sleep. David froze to death just a few hours later. 

David was from England, and before leaving for his Mount Everest journey he had told his mother that he would never be alone, that there were tons of other climbers around. The group David was with did not realize he was missing until after they got back to base camp. 

The same night, a group of climbers reached the limestone cave where “Green Boots” was. Known as “Green Boots” was a man who had died on the mountain in 2003, and who infamously serves as a landmark for climbers. The climbers however noticed a second body that was next to Green Boots, which would eventually be discovered as David Sharp. 

This group called out to David, but there was no response. The group decided to keep climbing, and it wasn’t until a second group came by about 20 minutes later, also noticing David, that they called to him but he reacted and waved them off. 

More than 40 climbers came across David Sharp and it is unknown as to why none of them rescued him. David Sharp still remains on Mount Everest, and like Green Boots, serves as a reminder of the dangers to other climbers. 

Green Boots

Green Boots was an Indian climber named Tsewang Paljor, is probably the most famous Mount Everest death. He was named Green Boots, because he was wearing neon-coloured gear when he died, in 1996. 

Tsewang was ready to climb Mount Everest with his ITBP colleagues and became the first Indian team to reach the North Summit. On May 10, 1996, a storm took over, and Tsewang, along with his seven other climbers were dead. Their deaths became known as the 1996 Everest Disaster and was the deadliest day in the mountain’s history until 2014. 

There was only one survivour in the group, a man named Harbhajan Singh, who remembers turning back and trying to convince the others to follow. He claims the others were determined to keep going, having what is known as “summit fever” and wanting to make history. 

Marco Siffredi 

Marco Siffredi was a 23 year old French snowboarder who had climbed Mount Everest in May 2001, wanting to find the “Holy Grail” of snowboarding routes. He did indeed find this, however there was not enough snow for him, so he again attempted his journey in September 2002.

After nearly a 13 hour climb, Marco and three sherpas made it to the summit of the Hornbein Couloir route on September 8, 2002. Marco found the path fresh with thick snow, perfect for snowboarding. 

After a few hours of resting, clouds began to gather, and the sherpas urged Marco to camp for the night, and they would descend the next morning. However, Marco did not listen to this, putting on his snowboarding gear. 

Marco was last seen gliding down the mountain, as the sherpas rushed back to the base camp to beat the impending storm. As they were rushing back, the sherpas noticed a lone figure, but as they reached the location where they saw this lone figure they noticed there was no tracks in the snow and the figure was gone. 

The sherpas believed they had seen a ghost, an omen that Marco had died and when they returned to the base camp and Marco was not there, they believed they were right. 

Marco has never been seen since, and no one knows what happened to him. Many experts believed he collapsed with exhaustion and was swallowed by a ravine. The impending storm also could have triggered an avalanche, which could have happened without the sherpas noticing as the peaks on Mount Everest are so vast. 

Marco’s sister actually believes that her brother did survive and chose to live with the local ya herders in Tibit instead, perhaps not wanting to ever be found. 

Nobukazu Kuriki 

Nobukazu Kuriki was a Japanese aplinist and motivational speaker, who had lost nine of his fingers to frostbite during a previous attempt, but was determined to reach Mount Everest’s summit. 

In May of 2018, Nobukazu had only 5,000 feet to go before reaching the top, when he was struck by a fever and a cough. Despite this, he decided to keep going, and even let his social media accounts know he wasn’t going to stop for anything. 

Unforunately, Nobukazu did not make it, and succumbed to the elements. His body was confirmed as being found near Camp Three around an altitude of 24,000 feet in his tent. 

Nobukazu was a very accomplished climber, having attempted Mount Everest seven times before he died. He finished a solo climb of the Himalayas’ Broad Peak, which is the 12th highest in the world. 

Despite many attempts and success stories, the trek up to Mount Everest is a hard journey, even for the most experienced climbers. Unfortunately, it is hard to recover most bodies of those whose lives ended there, and there will be many more tragic deaths of future climbers. 

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@imma-dragon53 Mr Dumbass (who I have described in the script as Lord of the Dumbfucks right now) is not a trail marker; his body was found in his tent on the North Col by a proper expedition the year after he died, and the body was buried by being pushed down a crevasse; they also recovered his journal, which is how we know most of his misadventures on the mountain. His death site is a landmark, just... not because of him; North Col was the site of Camp IV for the early expeditions, and in the modern day it's Camp I on the Tibetan route.

Also, Green Boots is not a trail marker either anymore! His identity was never confirmed, but was likely the remains of Tsewang Paljor, who died descending from a summit during the blizzard of 1996 (or it's the remains of Dorje Morup, one of Paljor's teammates). Either way, in 2014 a Chinese expedition moved the body off the trail; it's apparently still exposed, but extremely hard to find. Paljor's family believed the remains to be his, and were glad to hear he'd been moved, though they weren't pleased to have learned about it from a journalist interviewing them about him years afterwards.

Another notable landmark body that's been hidden is Sleeping Beauty, aka the remains of Francys Arsentiev, who died during her descent in 1998. Her identity was never in question; multiple other climbers had risked their own lives trying to save her, including her husband Sergei, who was last scene ascending for a rescue attempt. A British man, Ian Woodall, gave up his own summit attempt upon finding Francys on the verge of death in the morning, but she was too far gone to assist in her own descent, and she died while he was still attempting to rescue her. Woodall was understandably shaken by this, and in 2007 he returned to the mountain for the purpose of laying her to rest, giving her a brief funeral service before pushing her off a cliff. She was survived by her son, who wasn't thrilled that Woodall didn't contact him about it, but he understood why Woodall felt obligated to lay her to rest himself, and didn't think to look for her relatives first.

Also the remains of Sergei Arsentiev were found in 1999, ironically by the team that was specifically looking for the corpse of that one specific guy I mentioned from the very first expeditions (and a second guy who died with him, but he's still MIA. which is unfortunate, because that guys body should have their camera, and historical experts with Kodak say the film might be preserved well enough they could still develop the pictures)

So awhile ago my sibling suggested that I should make a podcast, because I really like infodumping at people, and that's a good way to subject an audience to my wild ramblings. And I'm not saying I'm definitely gonna do it, I'm just saying there may or may not be a word doc with a big stack of ideas of things I could totally infodump about for a large amount of time. And it's entirely possible there's a script for an episode in progress that's like already at 6k words.

It's about the history of climbing on Mount Everest. For context on how unnecessarily in depth this thing is, I ramble for 2k words before anyone gets within a hundred kilometres of the mountain in question. The 2k words of rambling is necessary okay, I need to explain why the mountain is called Everest, so that I can then explain why I'm not calling the mountain Everest.

Also there's a non-zero chance that at one point in the script I inform the audience to remember one specific guy that I've just brought up, he's a major part of this story, and later we're gonna examine his corpse, it'll be great.

...I swear to god, the corpse thing is important, that one dead body came with some very exciting revelations. The dead are treated with respect in my still theoretical podcast.

Okay fine, they're mostly treated with respect, there might be an entire section dedicated just to making fun of one specific guy for dying on the mountain like an idiot, but trust me, I cannot possibly speak about that guy with respect, the entire sequence of events that brought that guy up the mountain to die was so batfuck wild. It's too funny to be sad, okay, everyone else gets treated seriously. Just not the guy that was 100% certain he could reach the summit first without any assistance, mountaineering experience, bottled oxygen, equipment, or food. His first plan was to crash a plane directly into the mountain and step off onto the summit. It was 1934. There's just so much going on there, it's great.

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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.

[thetiredinsomniac]

Rainbow Valley, Everest

26,000 feet up Everest is an area called "The Danger Zone". It is called as such because the human body can't survive unless it is aided. Hence, why climbers carry oxygen tanks. However, there are some people who unfortunately cannot make it and end up spending their last breaths on Mount Everest. This area can also be called Rainbow Valley due to the colourful clothing worn by the corpses 26,000 feet up. There are around 200 bodies and $30,000 to bring the remains of someone back down. There is another "landmark" of a man called Tsewang Paljor, nicknamed "The Green Boots Cave". This nickname was given because of his green boots you can see in the image below.

Information found here.

Why not read about Chernobyl?

[samuraisharkie]

just saw a post of someone trying to make a meme joke out of an image of Tsewang Paljor, aka “Green Boots” the famous Mount Everest corpse used as a landmark up until 2014. That is a real human’s dead body, tragically lost and unidentified for YEARS and used the same way a tree or rock would be because he was too high up to move safely. That is not fucking funny, it’s not a joke, and any and everyone that laughed at it is a piece of worthless and hateful scum. I hope the motherfucker that made the post (I flagged and blocked immediately so I don’t remember their name) suffers.

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China wants to control Tibetan religious institutions, major power struggle expected after demise of 14th Dalai Lama: Report

TAIPEI: China feels that it should control religious institution in Tibet and due to this a greater crisis will emerge with the eventual demise of 14th Dalai Lama as there will be a major power struggle over who will get to choose the religious leaders of Tibet, according to a report in Taiwan Times. China, which had installed their puppet Panchen Lama in 90s to control Tibet, is expected to use him to legitimise the appointment of their own selected Chinese candidate as the next leader of Tibetan Buddhism (the 15th Dalai Lama), write Tsewang Paljor in Taiwan Times. Ninety-nine per cent of Tibetans do not accept Chinese appointed Panchen Lama as the real or true Panchen Lama, Paljor stated. They regard him as false Panchen Lama. The Chinese government occupied Tibet in 1950 and has ever since tried to control the region. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and the 10the Panchen Lama (Lobsang Trinley Lhundrup Choekyi Gyaltsen) stayed behind in Tibet. He spoke against Chinese rule many times and wrote a report chronicling Tibet’s famines in the 1960s. He was then arrested and spent more than eight years in jail. He died in 1989, due to the atrocities committed by the Chinese authorities, said Paljor As per the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama was requested by the search team of the 11th Panchen Lama headed by Chadrel Rinpoche to identify the (reincarnated) Panchen Lama from a list of possible candidates. On May 15, 1995, the Dalai Lama announced Gedhun as the 11th Panchen Lama. Two days later, the Chinese government abducted the child and his family. “None of them have ever been seen or heard from again. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who had just turned six, became the world’s youngest political prisoner. Chinese authorities even arrested Chadrel Rinpoche and his assistant Jampa Chung for finding Gedhun and disclosing his information to the Dalai Lama. They were imprisoned for six – and four years respectively for ‘selling state secrets’ and ‘colluding with separatist forces abroad,” he wrote. The Chinese government rejected the Dalai Lama’s choice of Panchen Lama stating that his ascendance was “illegal and invalid” and, six months after Gedhun’s abduction, China announced that it had found the “real” reincarnation of 10th Panchen Lama named Gyaltsen Norbu, a Tibetan boy – the son of two Communist Party members – as the 11th Panchen Lama. However, Tibetans have not accepted the Chinese appointed Panchen Lama. ‘Tashi Lhunpo’ monastery University is the real seat of Panchen Lamas but Gyaltsen Norbu never stays in Tashi Lhunpo”. Defying government orders, local Tibetan officials refused to participate in preparations for the visit. This was not the first time Gyaltsen Norbu had faced popular boycotts by Tibetans. Similar mass public boycotts were witnessed a few years ago when the Chinese authorities brought Gyaltsen Norbu to Labrang monastery. Time and again, Tibetans have also proved that they are not going to accept him as their religious leader, Paljor noted. “Chinese now feel that Tibet is a part of China and that the control of its religious institutions should be in their hands. It is a major power struggle over who will get to choose the religious leaders of Tibet. And, of course, the greater crisis will emerge with the eventual demise of the 14th Dalai Lama,” he wrote. “However, in order to checkmate China, the Dalai Lama has declared that he will be reborn outside Tibet in exile. And so on his demise, there will be a massive search by the Chinese and a massive search by the exile community held simultaneously to find a new Dalai Lama,” he added.

source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/2020/12/30/china-wants-to-control-tibetan-religious-institutions-major-power-struggle-expected-after-demise-of-14th-dalai-lama-report/

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Giày xanh - thi hài gây ám ảnh nhất trên đỉnh Everest

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Giày xanh - thi hài gây ám ảnh nhất trên đỉnh Everest

Tsewang Paljor chết trong tư thế nằm nghiêng như thể vừa mới chợp mắt, nhì tay khoanh trước ngực để giữ ấm và kéo mũ trùm kín đầu, đôi chân duỗi dài và để lộ ra đôi giày màu xanh đầy ám ảnh.

Giày xanh là tên nhưng mà những người leo núi sau này đặt cho thi hài Tsewang Paljor, nhà leo núi người Ấn Độ. Paljor chết trong tư thế nằm nghiêng, núp phía sau một khối đá lớn. Anh đã kéo mũ để che kín mặt, đôi tay khoanh trước ngực cho ấm. Đôi chân duỗi dài ra gần lối đi, buộc mọi người khi lên đỉnh núi phải bước qua đôi giày màu xanh lá của anh. vì vậy, Paljor được mọi người đặt cho tên gọi là Giày xanh. Paljor chết nhưng mà cứ ngỡ như anh đang nằm ngủ, và vừa mới chợp mắt.

Giày xanh – thi hài gây ám ảnh nhất trên đỉnh Everest

Giày xanh – thi hài gây ám ảnh nhất đối với những du khách leo Everest.

thi hài của Giày xanh mắc kẹt trên núi, nằm không xa đỉnh Everest, như một dấu vết nghiệt té của công cuộc đoạt được đỉnh núi từ mặt phía bắc. Nhiều người cũng mất mạng trên ngọn núi này, nhưng thi hài của Giày xanh là cái tên được nhắc tới nhiều nhất.

Theo BBC, khoảng 80% người leo Everest từ mặt phía bắc đã ngơi nghỉ tại nơi Giày xanh nằm và rất khó để quên được hình ảnh của anh.

“Tôi tin chắc rằng, những người từng leo Everest đều biết về Giày xanh, hay đọc câu chuyện về anh ấy”, Noel Hana, một nhà thám hiểm từng 7 lần đoạt được Everest thành công cho biết.

Paljor sinh năm 1968, là thành viên của lực lượng cảnh sát biên giới Ấn Độ – Tây Tạng. Anh qua đời vào năm 1996, trong một trận bão tuyết. Khi đó, chàng trẻ trai Ấn Độ mới 28 tuổi và chưa có khách du lịch gái.

Gần 20 năm sau cái chết của Giày xanh, nhóm phóng viên BBC quay trở lại khuôn viên của gia đình anh, nằm ở Sakti. Lối đi vào nhà anh đầy cỏ dại cùng những bụi cúc nở hoa tươi tỉnh. tiếp đón những vị khách phương xa là mẹ anh, năm đó đã 73 tuổi. Bà nồng nhiệt mời họ vào nhà, uống trà cùng bánh quy. Nhưng khi câu chuyện nhắc tới cái tên Paljor, khuôn mặt đang tươi cười của bà bỗng nhiên vụt tắt.

Ngôi nhà của gia đình Paljor. Ảnh: BBC.

Paljor là một trong 5 người con của bà Tashi Angmo. Trong tâm trí của người mẹ già, anh là đứa con ít nói, rất tốt bụng nên được người dân trong làng quý mến. Và cũng vì nhút nhát nên anh chưa từng có khách du lịch gái. Trong những lần tâm sự cùng em trai, Paljor cho biết anh quan tâm tới việc góp sức cuộc đời mình cho một ý tưởng lớn lao hơn là chuyện kết hôn.

Là đại trượng phu cả, Paljor có trách nhiệm trợ giúp gia đình. Hết lớp 10, anh bỏ học để gia nhập đội cảnh sát biên giới. Cả gia đình rất ủng hộ sự nghiệp của cậu đại trượng phu lớn.

Nhưng khi biết đại trượng phu được nhận nhiệm vụ đoạt được Everest, đỉnh núi cao nhưng cũng rất nguy hiểm, bà Angmo đã ngăn cản đại trượng phu. Tuy vậy, anh vẫn lên đường.

Cái chết của Paljor từng trở thành tâm điểm của làn sóng tranh cãi, bao gồm cả việc anh và nhì đồng đội khác đã chết vì leo núi trong thời tiết khắc nghiệt nhưng mà không tuân theo mệnh lệnh của lãnh đạo.

4 người trong nhóm leo núi hôm đó, ngoại trừ Paljor còn có Tsewang Smanla và Dorje Morup, cùng người lãnh đạo Harbhajan Singh. Singh nhớ lại, ông rất tự tín vào kỹ năng của 3 cấp dưới. Tuy nhiên, mọi việc xảy ra theo chiều hướng xấu là do mọi người trong đoàn đã không làm đúng theo mệnh lệnh.

Theo BBC, ít nhất hơn 200 người đã thiệt mạng khi đoạt được đỉnh núi cao nhất toàn cầu này. Ảnh: BBC.

Các vấn đề mở màn từ sáng ngày 10/5/1996, nhóm leo núi đã xuất phát muộn lúc 8h, thay vì 3h30 như kế hoạch. Do vậy, mọi người đã sửa dây thừng để sẵn sàng cho việc xuống khỏi đỉnh Everest, thay vì lên đỉnh trước.

14h30 cùng ngày, đội đã lên gần tới đỉnh, nhưng gió thổi mạnh hơn. Khi đó, Singh yêu cầu nhóm của mình phải đi xuống, muộn nhất là 15h, sau đó bị tụt lại so với nhóm nhưng mà Paljor dẫn đầu. Ông ra hiệu cho cả nhóm quay lại, nhưng không ai làm thế. Bỏng lạnh và kiệt sức, Singh quyết định quay lại trại VI và đợi lính của mình.

15h hôm đó, khi liên lạc với quân của mình, Singh được thông tin họ đã gần tới đỉnh. E ngại thời tiết rất xấu, ông đã ra lệnh cho họ nhanh chóng quay lại nhưng Paljor xin với sếp được tiếp tục đoạt được đỉnh cao. Cuộc thì thầm bị cắt đứt giữa chừng do thời tiết xấu.

17h35, Singh liên hệ được với những người lính. Họ báo rằng đã đoạt được được đỉnh Everest. Nhưng cả ba người đã không bao giờ có thể trở lại.

Nói về thời khắc đó, Harbhajan Singh, giờ đã là tổng thanh tra tại đội cảnh sát biên phòng, nhìn về phía xa xôi: “Nhóm chúng tôi hôm đó có 4 người. Tôi là người duy nhất sống sót”.

Mặc dù Paljor đã chết một cách hero trên đỉnh Everest, gia đình anh nhận được rất ít tiền trợ cấp. Mẹ của anh cho biết, đứa con với bà là vô giá và tiền không là vấn đề. 

Everest hùng vĩ những cũng đầy nguy hiểm

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Climate change has led to a chilling discovery on Mount Everest.

via Gunther Hagleitner / Flickr

Mount Everest is the Earth’s highest mountain, rising 29,029 feet above sea level on the border of China and Nepal. The first known people to reach its summit were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary in 1953, and since, over 48000 have reached its peak.

Over 300 people have met their demise on the icy mountain. But what happens on Everest stays on Everest, including the dead bodies.

Given the mountain’s treacherous terrain, it costs $40,000 to $80,000 to have a corpse brought down, so nearly two-thirds of those who’ve died remain on the mountain. Plus, for some climbers, being left on the icy slopes of Everest is an honor.

“Most climbers like to be left on the mountains if they died,” Alan Arnette, a noted mountaineer, told the BBC. “So it would be deemed disrespectful to just remove them unless they need to be moved from the climbing route or their families want them.”

One such unfortunate soul is Tsewang Paljor, known by climbers as “Green Boots.” In 1996, he died during an intense blizzard and his body has become a marker for hikers near the summit.

green boots on Everest #sad pic.twitter.com/hB08o96qC3

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In recent years, more of the Everest fallen are becoming visible due to climate change. “Because of global warming, the ice sheet and glaciers are fast melting, and the dead bodies that remained buried all these years are now becoming exposed,” Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, said in a statement.

“We have noticed that the ice level at and around the base camp has been going down, and that is why the bodies are becoming exposed,” Sherpa said.

Bodies have also been surfacing at the Khumbu Icefall, one of the most dangerous parts of the South Col route to Everest’s summit.

via Brigitte Djajasasmita / Flickr

Some corpses are currently being removed from the Chinese side of the mountain to prepare for the spring hiking season, but most are staying put on the Nepal side because of a law that requires government agencies’ involvement when dealing with bodies.

Last year, a team of researchers drilled the Khumbu Glacier and found the coldest ice was 2C warmer than the mean annual air temperature.

While the newly-exposed bodies on Everest are a chilling sight, if climate change continues, there will be much larger problems in the surrounding area. Melting glaciers on Everest and other Himalayan mountains will disrupt water availability in the region. This will have disastrous effects on farming and hydropower.

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Mount Everest, at 8,848 meters (29,029 ft) is the world's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. Over 375 people have died trying to climb it. Most deaths have been attributed to avalanches, injury from fall, ice collapse, exposure, frostbite, or health problems related to conditions on the mountain.

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LEH: Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today visited the several Power stations at Leh.

He was accompanied by Executive Councilor for Education, Dorjey Motup, EC Agriculture Tsering Wangdus, Chief Engineer Generation & M&RE Wing Ladakh  Kuldeep Raina, Executive Engineer Project Division Tsewang Paljor, Executive Engineer M&RE Tundup Splazang and other concerned officers and officials.

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These Dead Bodies Have Been Lying On Mt. Everest For Years Now But What’s The Reason?

Over past few decades, scaling large heights has become a passion for many and we all have heard about those who have scaled the highest peaks. There are many untold stories about those who lost their lives on Mount Everest and their bodies have not been recovered till date.

At times when all the odds are against them, when breathing also becomes a task, one can imagine how troublesome it would be to survive in those chilly winds. Many hikers have lost their lives while trying to achieve their dream but their bodies lay there frozen waiting to be pulled out.

Let us know more about the story regarding these bodies which are left behind.

A Body with Green Boots of Indian climber Tsewang Paljor is the most famous on Everest. He got separated from his group in the year 1996 and took shelter in the cave where he later died.

This is now used as a landmark for other mountaineers to gauge their path to the summit.

  George Mallory who tried scaling the summit in 1924 and lost his life could not be identified until the year 1999.

Had he survived the storm, he would have been known as the first person to climb the Everest.

    Many years have passed but no one knows the climber whose body is lying unidentified.

  Francys Arsentiev lost her life due to frostbite while she got separated from her husband on the mountain in 1999. Her husband died falling off the cliff and his body was recovered in the year 2000.

  Francys, an American woman who lost her life on Mount Everest was wrapped in the country flag by two climbers of her group who later returned to the mountain in 2007.

  German Climber, Hannelore Schmatz lost her life due to extreme exposure and frostbite in the year 1976.

Some people say that she fell asleep while taking a nap and never woke up again.There are some more unidentified bodies lying on the mountain peak and all we can do is just pray for the departed souls.

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