People often use the term "climbing the peak" to describe a person who overcomes difficulties and succeeds. For mountaineers, reaching the summit of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest is their most dazzling achievement. Since 1953, when humans first reached the summit of Mount Everest, tens of thousands of people have climbed Mount Everest. Even some ordinary people have climbed Mount Everest, including Wang Shi, the founder of Vanke. Perhaps when people mention climbing Mount Everest now, their first impression is not how difficult it is, but how trenched it is.
Because in the eyes of netizens, no matter how big the difficulty is, there are Sherpas to help you withstand, and even as long as you have money, Sherpas can carry you to the top of the mountain. These ideas are certainly incorrect, because even now, climbing Mount Everest is still fraught with all kinds of dangers, and over the years, according to incomplete statistics, more than 300 people have died unexpectedly as a result of climbing Mount Everest.
The remains of these people have also been left on Mount Everest, among which 3 bodies are the most famous, each of which has a touching story behind it, and for more than 20 years, no one dares to bury them. The most famous people in this issue will take you to take stock of the 3 most famous remains of Mount Everest!
Sleeping Beauty
The protagonist of this body is 40-year-old Francis, who was born in 1958 to a wealthy family in the United States. Her father was a businessman who enjoyed climbing mountains in his spare time. Francis was influenced by his father, and was often taken by his father to climb mountains since he was a child.
In 1980, Francis graduated from university and married a lawyer. After the couple got married, Francis gave birth to a son, Paul. At that time, in order to take care of his son, Francis rarely climbed mountains, and it seems that he gave up his hobby for a while.
In 1993, Francis divorced due to a relationship with her husband, and after the divorce, the son followed her husband. In order to dispel the loneliness in his heart, Francis began to climb the mountain again. During this period, she climbed many famous mountains and met many friends in the mountaineering community. Among them is Sergei, who is known as the "snow leopard".
Sergey has more than 20 years of mountaineering experience, and for many years he has been conquering famous mountains all over the world. After meeting Francis, the two shared similar interests and soon married.
After getting married, the couple went out to climb the mountains almost every week. After conquering one high-altitude, colder, oxygen-deficient mountain after another, the couple finally decided to summit Mount Everest.
Before reaching the summit of Mount Everest, Sergey made ample preparations and bought a large amount of supplies. He also plans to hire a Sherpa as a guide in the area. But when they arrived at the summit of Mount Everest, Francis and Sergei made another bold decision at that time, they planned to climb the summit without oxygen, that is, without the help of oxygen.
You must know that the summit of Mount Everest is more than 8,000 meters above sea level, and the oxygen content in the air is very small, which is a great test for people's spirit and body.
Francis wanted to be the first man.
Starting from the Everest base camp, the two at the beginning were not uncomfortable, and even because they did not carry oxygen cylinders, they walked faster.
But as the altitude got higher and higher, the two became more and more uncomfortable, but even so, Francis reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 22, 1998, becoming the first woman in the world to reach the summit without the help of oxygen.
The summit of Mount Everest
After reaching the summit of Mount Everest, Francis hurriedly retreated after taking only one photo. As soon as they descended to the fourth camp at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, Francis and Sergei had to stop and rest due to severe lack of oxygen. It is the last camp of human habitation, only 848 meters from the summit of Mount Everest, and is also called the "death zone" of Mount Everest by travelers.
In the "Death Zone", if something goes wrong, you are on your own, and there is simply no way to get unconscious or disoriented climbers down the mountain, whose bodies are constantly exposed to that deadly zone.
At that time, Francis's body reacted so strongly that she could not move a single step, and the experienced Sergei thought that if they did not retreat now, only death awaited them. So he decided to retreat first, find supplies and come to the rescue of Francis.
So Sergei left first, but unfortunately, shortly after Sergei set off, he slid down the ice slope because he stepped on the air, leaving his life on Mount Everest.
Sergei's remains
After a while, American climbers Wood'o and O'Dowd, who had retreated from the mountain, met Francis, who accompanied him for an hour, but in order to protect themselves, the two hurriedly retreated. After that, Francis died of frostbite and lack of oxygen, and her body lay in the "death zone".
Travelers who passed by felt very sorry after seeing Francis, because Francis himself was beautiful and tall. Climbers refer to her remains as the "Sleeping Beauty".
In 2007, climber Wood'o climbed Mount Everest again, and when he came to Camp 4 of Everest, he relied on his previous memories to cut through 1.2 meters of snow and finally found Francis's body, and he took out an American flag and covered Francis's body. Later, when the body of "Sleeping Beauty" was seen again, everyone found that there was an extra American flag on her body.
Today, Francis's son, Paul, is 36 years old, and every time he sees a picture of his mother's body, he is in great pain. He was only 10 years old when his mother died, and after all these years, Paul had always wanted to bring her body back, but it was expensive, and there was nothing he could do about it.
Green Boots
The protagonist of Green Boots is Zewan Palerzhe, a 28-year-old Indian border police officer.
Palerzhe has always been an avid mountaineer, and as a border policeman, he works not far from the Everest base camp. He has conquered many of India's most famous mountains before that, and since then, he has also made it his dream to summit Mount Everest.
In May 1996, Palezhe and his colleagues formed a mountaineering team that gathered at Everest Base Camp with the intention of conquering Everest in May, the best time to climb the mountain.
At the beginning of the climb, the weather was not bad, and along the way, they did not encounter any setbacks. But when the group reached the northeast ridge of Mount Everest, which is 8,500 meters above sea level, the weather suddenly changed and a snowstorm hit the mountaineering team. The team members get lost in the blizzard, and everyone fights to survive.
Palerzhe saw a cave, and he wanted to run to the cave to take refuge, but he didn't want to be blown down by a blizzard. Exhausted, he could never get up again, and just like that, his body was forever left at 8,500 meters of Mount Everest.
Because when he was killed, he was wearing a bright red mountaineering suit, blue hiking pants underneath, two oxygen tanks beside him, and a pair of green hiking shoes on the soles of his feet, so people passing by called him "green boots". The location of the "Green Boots" has also become another title of Mount Everest at 8,500 meters, and when everyone comes here, they will choose to take a break and then climb to the top of Mount Everest in one go.
It was only in 2011 that Palerzhe's older brother Tinglai first learned his brother's nickname. The nickname is undoubtedly a pain in the way for the families of the victims, and every time they are called, their pain recurs.
In an interview with the media, Tinglai said: "I found people calling him 'Green Boots' when I was surfing the Internet. I was so upset and shocked that I didn't want my family to know about it. ”
The elder brother Tinglai also wanted to try to transport his brother's body home, but after inquiring about the price of the body once, he never thought about it again. In this way, for more than 20 years, the "green boots" have stayed at 8,500 meters of Mount Everest.
Resters
The protagonist of the resting man was David Sharp, a 34-year-old British engineer at the time. Sharp was born into a wealthy merchant family in England, and the privileged environment provided great support for Sharp's hobbies. Like many mountaineers in the UK, Sharp's idol is Hillary Clinton, a New Zealander who climbed Mount Everest for the first time.
At the age of 18, Sharp was admitted to the University of Nottingham with excellent grades, studying engineering. During college, Sharp loved mountaineering, not only joined the school's mountaineering team, but also often climbed famous mountains around the world during the holidays.
University of Nottingham
After graduating from college, Sharp went to work and became an engineer for a large company with a good income. Outside of work, however, Sharp enjoys mountaineering, and over the years he has summited the Matterhorn at 4,478 meters above sea level in the Swiss Alps, Mount Elbrus at 5,642 meters above sea level in Russia, and Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa at 5,895 meters.
But for him, countless previous attempts were all aimed at finally reaching the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.
In 2003 and 2004, during this period, Sharp came to Nepal twice, and with the help of the Sherpas, he reached the height of 8,400 meters of Mount Everest twice, but because of the harsh climate and environment, for the sake of safety, Sharp gave up climbing the summit twice. It can be seen that Sharp is an extremely cautious person.
Sharp
After coming down from Mount Everest, Sharp chose to pursue a master's degree.
In May 2006, Sharp completed the defense of his master's thesis and was about to get his master's degree in education and start a new life. And just before that, Sharp decided to start a new life by climbing Mount Everest,
Before leaving, he went to his parents' house as usual to have dinner with them. At that time, my mother also said to Sharp: "There are mountaineers everywhere, and you will never be alone".
After that, Sharp hurried to Nepal, where he met his previous guide and his previous teammates who had climbed the mountain together, and everyone wanted to go with him, but this time Sharp decided to climb the summit alone.
Sharp Mountaineering
After that, Sharp reached the summit from the northeast slope of Mount Everest, and at about 1 a.m. on May 14, Sharp reached an altitude of 8,352 meters above sea level. Sharp decided to sit down and rest for a while.
In this way, nearly 40 people passed by Sharp after that, and some of them stopped to greet Sharp.
One of the Sherpa leaders, Tahi, held a video camera and caught him greeting Sharp.
"What's your name?"
"My name is David Sharp, I'm from Asia Trekking and I just want to sleep for a while."
This is also the last video material of Sharp's life.
In the early morning of May 16, when another climber passed by where Sharp was camping, he walked into Sharp's tent and found that Sharp was dead. In this way, the news of Sharp's death was reported by the media.
This quickly became hot news in the mountaineering world, and laymen began to criticize the more than 40 climbers who passed by Sharp for not saving them. But people who have climbed Mount Everest say that in the process of climbing Mount Everest, everyone's life is in danger. Taking the risk of rescuing others will only put yourself in trouble, so not helping others on Mount Everest has become a common unspoken rule in this circle.
Sharp
Sharp left, only 34 years old, 1.78 meters tall and weighing 68 kilograms, Sharp died of lack of oxygen and cold. It has also become a signpost for climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and is also called "resting people" by later climbers.
summary
Seeing this, everyone was curious, why didn't anyone take their bodies away?
In fact, the main reason is that in the cold and oxygen-deficient environment, no one can carry the weight to carry the corpse off. Secondly, even if a helicopter comes, there is no good parking lot.
Finally, these corpses have been on Mount Everest for more than 20 years, and they have long since merged with the glacier on Mount Everest, and it is also a big problem to detain their bodies from the glacier.
In short, climbing Mount Everest is an extremely difficult and life-threatening thing, and I hope you can judge whether you can reach the summit of Mount Everest according to your own conditions.