| ▲ | onemoresoop 3 hours ago |
| Greenboots has been laying there frozen in the snow since the 90s. It even became a landmark for other climbers. Im glad they managed to at least identify the poor soul. Who knows how much longer he’s going to rest there.. |
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| ▲ | KomoD 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Looks like they might retrieve the body. > The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is soliciting bids from high altitude recovery agencies for a mission to retrieve the remains of a climber long known only as "Green Boots" from the mountain's northern slope https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mount-everest-green-boots-body-... |
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| ▲ | msephton 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's mentioned in the article | | |
| ▲ | sillysaurusx 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | A lot of people come to HN for the comments. It’s often useful to gauge a story by public sentiment first. That said, you’re ultimately correct that it’s in the article, but I appreciated it. :) |
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| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think Mallory's body was left until 1999. He died in 1924. |
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| ▲ | bhickey 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Conrad Anker covered his body in scree. Subsequent expeditions have been unable to locate it. There's speculation that it was secretly removed from the mountain for political reasons. | | | |
| ▲ | mkl 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The location of Mallory's body was unknown until 1999. The location of this one has been known pretty much the whole time. | | |
| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think another climber spotted him in the 1930s, but didn't mention it, because he didn't want to have a media circus. |
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| ▲ | gokhan 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Is this an AI generated comment? |
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