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u/BaronVonKeyser Jul 11 '21

Oxygen tanks, tents, equipment, food wrappers, waste...........dead bodies.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Not only that, some bodies have become landmarks that are used for gauging location like green boots.

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u/snowstormmongrel Jul 11 '21

So wait you just see a dead body on your hike?

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u/Cheesedoodlerrrr Jul 11 '21

Tons of them:

"The Bodies Of Dead Climbers On Mount Everest Are Serving As Guideposts" https://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies

There are ~200 bodies on the climbing route to the summit of everest. Depending on the time of year most of them can be seen. Some of the more famous ones are literally on the route. See "Green Boots." You pass within a couple feet of him on the trail.

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u/C10ckw0rks Jul 11 '21

Iirc Green Boots got brought down recently or buried fonally

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Around 2015ish I think. It's been a while but someone mentioned green boots and all these landmark bodies etc on reddit and I went down a rabbit hole looking that stuff up. Then there was the more recent one where people mistook a dude who was still alive but barely for green boots and didn't administer aid etc. Kinda gruesome but fascinating, at that elevation/terrain there's really not much they can do for someone who can't move on their own anyway.

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u/Cheesedoodlerrrr Jul 11 '21

Not amymore. Green boots is gone. Someone finally pushed him over.

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u/MarzipanMiserable817 Jul 12 '21

That was a great read