Clean-Up Crew Works To Pry Bodies From Ice As Mount Everest Thawing Reveals Mass Grave

Five unnamed frozen bodies, including skeletal remains, retrieved in Nepal's mountain clean-up campaign.

The death toll has risen as more climbers have attempted the ascent, but the death rate has decreased due to improved safety measures and better equipment​, as perThe high-altitude “Death Zone” above 8,000 meters is particularly perilous due to the lack of oxygen, which severely impairs climbers’ abilities to make sound judgments and increases the likelihood of fatal errors,​

Notable examples include “Green Boots,” the body of an unidentified climber on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest, and “Sleeping Beauty,” identified as Francys Arsentiev, who died in 1998 during her descent.Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa, who led the body retrieval expedition, admitted: “It is extremely difficult.Tshiring reportedly said some of the bodies still appear almost as they had at the moment of death — dressed in full gear, along with their crampons and harnesses.

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