There Are Over 200 Bodies on Mount Everest, And They’re Used as Landmarks. The Story Of Green Boot At Mount Everest .
Mount Everest the highest peak in the world. Every year the climbers from the whole world try to climb on the top of the world. Among all climbers, more than 200 hundred people never come from Mt. Everest.
The mountain gives deaths to his climbers through falling into the abyss, suffocating from the lack of oxygen, smashed by the avalanche from the mountain, etc.
But climbers still continue to try their skills and luck to climb to the top of the world. Indeed, the living pass the frozen, preserved dead along Everest’s routes so often that many bodies have earned nicknames and serve as trail markers
Today I will tell you one the most famous landmark body of Mt Everest nicknamed as “The Green Boot”.
On the way to Everest from the north or from Tibet, there is a small cave of limestone at an altitude of 7500 meters (26900 feet). Inside the cave, a mountaineer is sleeping on the left side. Turning to the summit of Everest. Pulled the hood of the jacket over his face. The face is therefore not seen. He will not let you see.
Pulling the arms close to the chest. The color of the red climbing jacket has faded. The blue and black trousers worn are also dirty. The legs came out of the two small caves on the way to the summit. Two fluorescent green climbing boots are shining on the feet. Indo-Tibetan Border Police jawan Teswang Paljor is lying down. Has been bedridden for 22 years. The corpse that the whole world knows is called the Green Boot. The name of the cave has become Green Boot Cave.
9 a.m., May 10, 1997
Sunny morning. Four members of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police are climbing up the milky ice of Everest from the Tibetan side. Although there is much less snow in the north, it is much harder to climb the peak than in the south. The team consists of Head-Constable Teswang Paljor, Subedar Teswang Samanla, Lansnayek Dorje Morap and Deputy Leader of the team Inspector Harbhajan Singh. The first three are Ladakhi youngsters who are booming and possess enviable mountaineering skills.
The day did not start well. The bar was supposed to leave Camp-VI to conquer Mount Everest at 3.30 am. But due to bad weather, the riders were late. The team leaves at 8 am to win the summit. It was four and a half hours late, so the members decided to return quickly to the death zone with a fixed rope, without risking the summit. About 50% of all deaths on Everest to date have occurred in this death zone. So the ITBP team wanted to ensure their return.
2.40 pm
Paljor’s team started late but advanced perfectly and quickly towards the summit. But suddenly the whimsical wind jumped on the team like a mad hawk. Mahendra Singh, the leader of the campaign waiting at the Advance Base Camp, had given strict instructions that from 2.30 pm to 3 pm, the team members would return no matter what situation they were in.
Deputy leader Harbhajan Singh was far behind the three Ladakhi youths. At half-past two, Harbhajan signalled the top three to return. But the three Ladakhi riders either did not see his signal or ignored it. Not listening to the deputy leader, Harbhajan Singh, who was attacked by frostbite when he saw the three of them hurrying upstairs, followed the team leader’s instructions and made his way back to Camp-VI.
3 p.m.
Team leader Mahendra Singh was walking restlessly in the advance base camp. Repeatedly looking at the walkie talkie set. Suddenly he woke up. Subedar Teswang Samanla’s voice floated on the ether wave,
-Sir, we’re going to the summit
- No, not at all, the weather is getting worse fast.
-Please sir, I can see the summit, it won’t take an hour, we are three fits.
- Don’t be overconfident. Please listen to me. Come down to Camp VI. When the sun sets, you will be in danger.
Subedar Teswang did not listen to Samanla, but handed the walkie-talkie to Head-Constable Teswang Paljor.
Sir, please allow us to the summit. The excitement of self-confidence and peak victory was in Paljor’s throat. Then the phone was suddenly cut off. Leader Mahendra Singh of Advance Base Camp has a smirk on his face. Experienced climber Mahindra can see the thunder signal.
5.45 pm
Again the sound of the throat floating on the walkie talkie. Subedar Teswang Samanla said Paljor, Morup and he are standing on the summit of Everest. The Indians finally conquered Everest from the north. A happy commotion began at the Advance Base Camp. Leader Mahendra Singh sat down to send the news of his team’s peak victory to Delhi. But in a worried face. The festivities began in the army and mountaineering quarters all over India.
6.45 pm
The joy of basecamp and advanced basecamp did not last long. The notorious blizzard of 1998 began to hit Everest with gusts of ice and wind. The team members below are dry-faced. Leader Mahendra Singh gave courage in the face, these three have fallen and come out in such a horrible condition before. So even if there is a problem, they will come down to Camp-VI by midnight. But it is not a small thing to face such a terrible blizzard over the Death Zone of Everest! He himself knew the riders were unlikely to return.
8 p.m.
Leader Mahendra Singh decided to ask a professional Japanese team from Furukawa to help. In front of him, Koji Yada, the leader of the Japanese team, contacted the Japanese explorers at Camp VI. Described the situation. He then told Mahendra Singh that the Japanese riders would help him when they saw the Paljors on their way to the summit. The Japanese have taken it as an accident of their own team. Leader Mahendra Singh was impressed by the Japanese team leader’s attitude of helping in this emergency.
May 11, 9 p.m.
Blizzard stopped. The Japanese team left Camp-VI very early in the morning for the summit. At 9 a.m., Koji, the leader of the Japanese team, told the concerned Mahendra Singh that two of his team’s adventurers, Hiroshi Hanada, Itsuki Shigekawa and Sherpara Dorje, had seen Morup. Morup is lying on the ice in a state of severe frostbite. The Japanese riders set off for the summit with a fixed rope attached to Morup. Leader Mahendra Singh stared at the Japanese team leader in astonishment.
Why did not they return?
Different opinions came. They are; Team leader, disobeying co-team leader’s instructions, thinking of Everest as another five mountains, overconfidence, ignoring the weather, unforgettable feats
11 o’clock in the morning
In clear and clear weather, Samanla and Paljor saw two Japanese riders and three Sherpas. Lying unconscious in the ice. But they went to the summit without help. Head-Constable Teswang Paljor, Subedar Teswang Samanla, Lansnayk Dorje Morap were lost forever in the Death Zone of Everest.
Indomitable urge, inhuman use of Japanese team. Also running out of vitality while climbing fast, then in extreme fatigue, lack of oxygen, freezing to death like helpless.
Paljor became the green boot
French climber Pierre Paper on finds a body in a limestone cave near the summit of Everest on May 21, 2001. The green boots on the legs of the body attracted him. He did not know who the body was. So he called it the Green Boot in the video. Paljor was identified by the body’s clothing, the only green boot on his feet on a cursed day.
