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India Eyes "High Risk" Mount Everest Mission to Recover Frozen Body of Climber "Green Boots" After 30 Years

Summary by CBS News
A Mount Everest veteran tells CBS News why retrieving "Green Boots," whose remains have become a grim waypoint for climbers, would be a perilous mission.

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The mountaineering on Everest reveals a new truth. India prepares the recovery of the body nicknamed "Green Boots", now identified as Dorje Morup. A rare mission at more than 8,500 meters altitude.

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For thirty years "Green Boots," that is the body that wears them, is a reference point for those who try to reach the top, but its identity remains a mystery

·Italy
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An Indian expedition will now try to identify who the person is.

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For almost three decades, the remains of an injured climber have been on the northeast route of Mount Everest. Under the name "Green Boots" the body became one of the most famous landmarks of the mountain. Now Indian authorities are taking steps to rescue the dead from an altitude of over 8,500 metres.

·Bolzano, Italy
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London - The body of a climber nicknamed Green Boots, who died on Mount Everest's icy ridge in the so-called death zone, has been lying there for 30 years. Indian authorities are now preparing an expedition to recover the body and bring it down from the world's highest mountain, The Guardian reported on its website, which also reopens the long-standing mystery of the man's true identity.

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ceskenoviny.cz broke the news on Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
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