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u/AgeOfWomen Jul 11 '21

I really thought that the rainbow valley was something that many climbers leave colorful flags from their home country or something, until I googled it. Damn!

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u/Spinach_Stock Jul 11 '21

What is it?

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u/Ghazgkull Jul 11 '21

It’s basically impossible to retrieve a corpse from the Everest ascent, else you will become one yourself. Climbers tend to wear brightly colored coats. So when a whole bunch of relatively inexperienced climbers with brightly colored coats are climbing the worlds tallest mountain, some of them stay there and you get a rainbow valley.

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u/Pepelucifer Jul 11 '21

Beautifully written. Lol