The Tragic Story Of The Frozen Man On Top Of Mount Everest
As a reporter from the BBC once stated, "When [Mount] Everest takes a life, it also keeps it." The number of bodies on Everest grows every year from the climbers who lose their lives on its slopes. Causes of death include hypothermia, exhaustion, lack of oxygen, and falls, among other realities. Once the bodies are frozen, they become attached to the hillside, and on Everest they stay - permanently. One of Everest's most famous residents, Green Boots, who fell victim to the deadliest day in Everest history, resides at a particular location on the mountain where most hikers must pass. As a result, Green Boots on Everest has become one of the landmarks for those heading up the slopes.
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The world's tallest graveyard
Worlds tallest junk yard and toilet from what I saw on a let’s clean Everest video..
@@Yamaha38XCRacer That too.
@@Yamaha38XCRacer - Unbelievable amount of garbage.
What’s the world’s shortest u think
And base camp is the worlds highest dump
I remember how chilling it felt learning about the bodies for the first time.
Yeah, google earth blurs out rainbow valley.
Chilling. I see what you did there
@@headcollecter3000Some ice cold wordplay am I right? 😂
Ah duuude that was COLD!
And it's not even just the danger. It's the level of suffering. No way.
You couldn't pay me enough to ever even think of climbing something that dangerous. lol
It’s mostly a tourist trap, shit hole these days. It’s covered in trash and there are lines as long as Disneyland.
I don't understand the mindset. The first time I was aware so many of the climbers died, I was dumbfounded, bewildered, and saddened.
Me too, I wouldn’t mind being near the mountain, but to climb it ? Hell no
Still safer than K2 which is unbelievably dangerous.
You can pay me to think about it. Make me an offer and I’ll think really hard as I sit in my house
Actually, $70’000 seems cheap. The Sherpa’s aren’t paid NEARLY enough to carry those arrogant narcissists crap up that mountain.
I think the price is way higher these days.
Why you got to hate on rich or adventurous people. They don't set the price, and maybe some of them pay more, you don't know. Quit being another cranky child on the internet.
@@hrthrhs nah its still around 70000$, and it is way too cheap, it endangers the life since anyone who can afford it can go, even without mountaineering experience, they think the sherpas will haul them up and down. and the sherpas are poor asf, they arent nearly as well paid, and this job is only seasonal. theyre also considered among lower classes and heavily exploited, and ud be surprised at what some people carry. the clients think they are superior and behave like the sherpas are slaves. its not being cranky if u r stating facts. my family grew up in the Himalayas, and i have lived there while visiting my relatives too. you'd be surprised at how arrogant tourists, mainly US people are.
@@MaskdMafia Well yeah I'm sure a lot are arrogant and think down of the sherpas
Don’t be jealous kid, now get back to making those burgers!
Why are you showing pictures of Mt. Fuji in Japan?
it's filler feed, fool!
Ok, it wasn't just me
I think they've got Kilimanjaro there as well.
What's the difference. They are all snowy hills 🤷🏾♀️
@@NyanyiC We're just being nitpicky so that we can brag about our amazing mountain recognising skills.
if i was green boots, i personally would be happy people constantly come by my body. For one, i would have folks constantly coming by to visit me. Second, and more important, being a waypoint, maybe my death could save another life by someone not getting lost, just by knowing where my body was, and that person was able to survive.
Nah. Another moronic thrill seeker died RIGHT NEXT TO GREEN BOOTS WHILE OTHERS WALKED PAST HIM KNOWING HE WAS IN DISTRESS AND DOING NOTHING BECAUSE THEY WOULD LOSE THE SUMMIT. No pity for those people, the loving or the dead.
I would rather have made it down. Alive.
He is no longer there now. In 2014, some Chinese climbers pushed him over the edge, for unknown reasons, though some think is a more dignified burial than being on display on the main route and photographed.
@@Itried20takennames That's probably why. Getting people bodies off the mountain requires that somebody physically drag the body down the mountain. There's only a handful of helicopters that can get anywhere near the altitude of the top bits of the mountain and trying to deal with the various weird drafts is tough even with lower elevations. One of the risks these folks take when going for the summit is that they'll get in trouble with nobody able to provide the necessary help. It's probably only somewhat better than having a mishap while spelunking.
@@codename495 From what I know it is actually dangerous to try to help others on Everest. That's part of the reason there are so many bodies still there, it just isn't worth the risk.
When people tell me I need to be more motivated, I’ll quip that Mount Everest is covered in the bodies of highly motivated people.
Oooo! NICE! Love it!
Truth
Stay lazy, my friend!
Cite your sources bruh. I’ve heard this Everest joke for YEARS from various comedians. Gotta love random KZhead commenters taking credit for stolen jokes & quips.
@@Bishop228 I never claimed it was an original, "bruh".
Let's not forget the millions of tons of garage left on the the world's tallest dump
"Garbage." I doubt people are building garages up there.
Human beings are disgusting.
Garbage.
And the overworked and underpaid sherpas that have to climb it again to pick up the trash every year before climbing season...
You know what they say: if at first you don't succeed, your frozen corpse will become a horrifying landmark. It's not a very catchy saying, it it?
I love how images of mountains that AREN'T Everest keep getting shown when talking about it, lol.
I try to be as compassionate as I can in this world, but any idiot who tries to climb to the top without oxygen is just inviting their place in the Darwin Awards.
Messiner and Habeler?
Agree a bit, and especially now, when thousands have been to the summit and people are trying for increasingly ridiculous “firsts”, like “first hearing impaired woman from Illinois to summit on a Tuesday!”
I did it in 1988. What’s your problem?
'dude didn't intend to spend eternity as a signpost' LMFAO ugh the feels my bad! but hahaahahaha
"Because playing 'name the corpse' isn't the most fun roadtrip game" 🤣
Green boots was removed from the cave in 2014 by some Chinese climbers for unclear reasons, likely pushed over the edge, which some think is a more dignified burial than being on display on the main route.
Some reason you showed Mt Fuji? Or is that just another Ranker mistake?
Haha most of the footage is not of Everest. WTH is Mt Fuji got to do with it. Mt Fuji is a day hike, not quite relevant to green boots
I hate going back downstairs for something I forgot. Climbing a mountain nope..no thanks!
With all due respect to the quality of this video. Can we all agree this is the BEST narrator on KZhead?
Yes, yes indeed
Definitely!
Absolutely the Very Best! ❤
Agreed 👍
Fanboys 😂
When you’re willing to risk your life, you have to accept that you may lose it.
People who die on Everest usually due so in a self-guided way - I love those stories. The tragic ones of people trying to save these idiots from themselves are no fun.
Why bother drawing an arbitrary line when youre already laughing at the unfortunate dead? 😂
@@zachelope2514Because some of them are foreigners doing it for clout and others are cash strapped locals who exist off of a tourist economy and die so that privileged rich people can feel like they accomplished something? Dunno, hits different to me I guess.
@@zachelope2514 You have a point - it's not like they care 🤷
I feel sorry for the local guys and rescue teams. They aren't rich or subsidized people with big egos, just people doing their jobs. And probably grossly underpaid
I am not entirely sure why this youtube about Mt Everest starts with two successive pictures of not Everest, but a couple of random South American volcanos (I think they are in South America). There are only about a million pictures of Everest in the public domain, so there is absolutely NO reason to include randomly selected volcanos at the beginning of the video. Everest is most emphatically NOT a volcano! This sort of misrepresentation smacks of sheer laziness.
Maybe they did it to annoy you.
Honestly there’s enough bodies up there for several focused videos on individual stories
Some great adventurers up there still. Their stories are amazing and tragic
I would be happy to watch and listen to those if they made more videos
Since we're here on KZhead, we can just search and see how many idiots along with legends went
Man, this is something else. Heartbreaking. Mount Everest is the mountain of death.
k2 mountain: am i a joke
I think that title belongs to K2
Annapurna enters the chat. Abbapurna: Amateurs
Nanga Parbat has the highest fatality ratio guys.
I met a guy at a party who was claiming very loudly in front of a group of girls he was trying to impress, that he climbed Everest. NO ONE gave a sh!t. The girls walked out 1/5 into his story to go flirt with the handsome bartender. 😂😂😂
My neighbour died on Everest 🏔 base camp from altitude sickness .He was a professional guide on the mountain
Real interesting. I had heard about this situation and wondered why people attempt to climb that mountain. The odds are not in their favor and now he's been laying there since 1996. That's wild
What do you mean? Most people who attempt to climb it survive, although a bunch have to turn back before hitting the top. I think that if more people were being killed that it would be more of an issue. I remember summiting one of the local mountains when I was younger. It was not guaranteed, we went the weekend that had the best history of success, but we barely made it to the top in whiteout conditions. Got a garbage view at the top, but we got some amazing views along the way. There's just something like climbing high things that is in the human genome ever since we evolved from apes.
David Sharp was undoubtably trying to commit suicide. He knew he would die if he went alone without any oxygen and he REFUSED to bring an emergency radio, he knew his body proportions and genes did not predispose him to be one of those people who are able to climb with less or no oxygen, and he didn't try to get help from any passers-by.
Nobody would’ve helped anyway.
Apparently David wasn't that sharp...
That's a solid point. I'm able to hold my breathe for several minutes at sea level, but there's no way on earth that I'd even consider trying to summit Everest without oxygen. The radio is a bit more understandable as the ability to get help at that altitude is pretty limited. Although, there again, it really depends where you are on the mountain when you do run into trouble. During a white out, you might only be a couple dozen feet from other climbers and uninjured and a radio would be a literal life saver in that case. You might also run into trouble when you're closer to the base camp and somebody could mount a rescue operation with relatively low risk.
Mt. Everest AKA "Corpsicle Hill"
Remember! Every corpse in Mt. Everest, was once a highly motivated individual. Until we meet again!!!! 🏃🏾♂️💨
Highly motivated and lacking in common sense.
@@monkeygraborange cocky as well.
High on the vanity chart as well.
@@monkeygraborangeFacts.
@@andy56dukyabsolutely
I've heard this story for years now. How does he not get covered by snowfall over the years. RIP Green shoes.
I think psaaers-by sweep him off occassionally to maintain the integrity of the "landmark".
He was moved some time ago by his friends and family. This person does not know what he is talking about.
Love your videos and glad to see your adventures as well. Thanks for posting this too. Have a nice day now.
I'm flabbergasted how much Everest looks just like Mt. Fuji.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
There's a map of the corpses. Like a cemetery's file book, but they're also "landmarks."
To die at work trying to earn a living is tragic, but honorable,to die doing a hobby is idiotic and careless.
The thing is, downhill is NOT easier than uphill! I don't even say this as a mountain climber, but a simple hiker. If you get tired going uphill, flat is the easiest walking path. You have to control yourself going downhill. Add to your self a backpack and if you have a dog or something (probably the vast majority doesn't bring an animal). Having to control even more than yourself is quite hard, even if you're used to it. It's easier to face the earth on a steep hillside than away. You can't grab air! Also not fun if you're dizzy, which you probably will be with low oxygen.
Super unrelated, but I'm so in love with the first background instrumental 😭 peak 90s/early 2000s docu nostalgia
The trash piling up there is even more depressing to me. Jeezzz!!!!
Rainbow Ridge, so called because of all the colorful clothing sticking out from all the frozen corpses. What the heck, that's so grim.
He’s been moved. Sherpas removed the body and buried him..
Walking up Everest in SHORTS?
I don’t get why this is a goal for so many people
Because it's dangerous and because it's there.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade those aren’t GOOD reasons 🤷♂️
It’s just LOUSY with corpses!
I don't think the lice survive the cold.
Future archeologists will wonder if there was a treasure at the top they were all after.
Why are many of he images of mt fuji?
Stock mountain footage
Great story !! Yes Everest was once my dream. But now I am simply too old to try it.
"...playing name the corpse..." hahaha Reminds me of the weird travel games my dad would come up with to pass the time when we went on vacation.
This is great
A+ video! LOVE IT! Fascinating and unique topic and video, such breathtaking images too!
Boo-hoo 😂😂 report this pathetic loser.
Green Boots is Himalayan. That's him-a-layin' over there.
Lol nice 👌
🙄
Dang! Good one, man!!!
RIP "Green Boots"..the title tho..lol
Imagine climbing a mountain only to become a literal landmark… That’s wild
How do you guys know I’ve been really into unfortunate stories about the Everest and Denali’s climbers ❤ A lot of clueless rich people, sadly.
Why would we care?
@@giselematthews7949 WhY wOuLd wE cArE? Not talking to you, Gisele.
There's something called DNA testing to determine who green boots really is...
That would freak me out if I saw that! 😮
K2 is way more bad ass. There are no climbers' bodies on the main route because the mountain is so steep all the bodies fall down to the glacier below.
Day 7 of asking when the next series of Timeline is going to come out. (Hoping it’s going to be 2000-2010
“Popsicle corpse” 😂😂😂💀
You are hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing 😂
It's wild that bodies are used as markers on Mount Everest.
No I haven’t dreamed of that
I bet nobody wears green climbing boots on Everest anymore.
Hristo Prodanov also died while climbing without oxygen. He died after climbing the West ridge, while going down. There is a video of a song dedicated to him where you can hear his friends talking to him while trying to reach him and save him, begging him not to fall asleep. These recordings break my heart every single time I have happened to stumble upon them. I will never understand the craving for high mountain climbing but I certainly hope those who died doing it didn't die for nothing and at least did something they loved.
Baloney. My money says he would rather have made it down and told his family about the adventure.
@@david9783 he would, wouldn't he. But he didn't and his body is somewhere on the West ridge. Only his camera was found. So yes, at least he died doing something he loved.
@@huskytail I think he MAY have had a few regrets while he was freezing to death. Like this one..."I didn't plan to do all this just to freeze to death. I wanted a fire and some congac!" But I guess we'll never really know.
@@david9783 again, he may or may not had regrets, we can't know but he for sure did something he loved
No, I never have dreamed of that! People are crazy.
Weird how you keep calling pics of Lincoln Hall as David Sharpe.
Those kind of boots are expensive, I’m shocked they dont get “cleaned up” more often. It’s not like the previous owner needs them, and sherpas don’t get paid all that much.
I know right!
I have no desire or need to go there
I wonder if Mr. Green Boots was related to Mr. Green Jeans.😀
🤣🤣🤣! And they both hang out with Captain Kangaroo.😂
Scary Situation
It must have been hard gathering information for this...now Im not calling this lazy content...or parasitic youtube garbage content...Im proud of you. Good work here.
Everest is going to be such an interesting archeological dig in the future.
The pictures of the person he declares to be David Sharp, i‘m pretty sure actually show australian climber Lincoln Hall…..who almost died on Everest in 2006
Most of the bodies I heard? Already reached the summit and were making thier way back down? It takes a certain kind of person who's dream it is to do this. Bless all those who reached the summit but are still there on the mountain. They went out doing what they loved doing.
why do i feel like i saw mt. fuji in some of the slides?
I've lived 65 years in the pea soup at sea level. I wouldn't even make it to base camp.
Me neither.
Mount Everest is that high because no human should be up there! The so called glory of making it to the summit is not worth the risk of losing your life, my humble opinion
When "checkpoint Charlie" is literally Charlie
To answer your question...Hell No!
Even if I know the story backwards and forwards, if it's on the infographics show, I click
I love your voice
The music is so distracting
To say, "He died doing what he loved" is the height of stupidity. I'm sure he would rather have come down and warmed himself by the fire with some congac, and talked about his adventure. No trip down, no fire, no cognac, no stories. And he's still up there, the once-human block of ice.
Imagine dedicating your whole life to climb the mountain only become a checkmark
RIP
I saw the title and my first thought was "which one".
This unfortunately is the main income for Sherpas and it’s them that risk there live to earn a living. Huge respect for these brave people of Nepal
Mt. Everest is used as one of the primary examples of flawed logic in critical thinking classes. People become so fanatically (and financially) invested in making the climb that nothing will stop them from trying, even when experts tell them that they have no chance of surviving due to weather conditions.
It is very tragic that one man has to stay on a mountain
Theres a lot more than one
There’s like 280 corpses
This is so entertaining !! Popsicle people are so cool !!!
Walking by the bodies of people, who died doing what you're doing ? Aside from being an infantryman, there aren't many similar situations.
Seems pointless.
I miss green boots and I never even saw him in person. F those people who threw him over. Do a video on the lady with the red hair too.
Who is the lady with the red hair?
May I request more spooky type videos loved the famous ghosts and whitcy videos haunted history's are always cool,could be a channel just saying lol
Nah let them do their own thing
I have zero sympathy for twtats that put themselves in danger like this
Imagine thousands of years from now the Glaciers in which these bodies are interred release them like Otzi to inspire archeological investigators.
Climbing up there is never in my bucket list !!
On one hand I completely understand wanting to have your loved one's remains retrieved off of Mount Everest and given a proper burial but on the other I feel like it's insanely selfish to put other people's lives at risk to do so- sure you're paying them an insane amount of money to do it but you're still putting their lives at risk nonetheless and in turn could cause their deaths and cause their loved ones to have to go through the same thing you're going through. I don't shame anyone who climbs, has climbed or wants to climb Everest (not gonna lie i've always been really interested in doing it myself) it's amazing that they were/are that passionate about something so much so that some even made a career out of being guides and I think we all need something like that in life that we genuinely enjoy and brings us happiness but I think there needs to be a better system in place and more importantly better planning when it comes to death. It's heartbreaking to think about and I know to some people discussing death is "taboo" but it's the reality of going to a place that has such a high death rate especially when after their death getting their remains can cause injury or even worse death to others and leave their loved ones scrambling- instead of retrieving bodies maybe have a team that goes up there and gives them a proper burial as much as possible (covering them in snow, covering them in stones, putting them in a crevice, leaving a memorial marker, etc basically keeping them out of the elements and out of the view of people giving them some form of respect/dignity and if they were religious if possible some words from someone from their religion who can give those last religious parting words). Everest is an insanely beautiful mountain and oddly magnetic so I can definitely understand it's appeal but the saying "beautiful but deadly" applies to it for a reason 🤷🏻♀️
I'm not a big fan of climbing 2 flights of stairs, why would I ever want to climb a mountain like Everest? bizarre hobby.
It's sad that these people died while trying to achieve the dream of climbing Mt. Everest and are frozen there forever. R.I.P.
I've had a hankering to go to Base Camp and tote out a load of trash. I have some friends in the area (sherpas). Nowadays I think I'd settle for just getting to visit my friends, seeing that I'm in my 60s now...
Couldn't anyone in this man's) or whomever it is) family recognize those outlandishly colored boots, in combo with "He never came back?"
Kathy Reichs refers to him in one of her books. And others.
If this is about Everest, what's with all thee Mt Fuji photos?