India Plans Daring Mission to Recover 'Green Boots' from Everest After 30 Years

An Indian soldier died on Mount Everest in 1996 and his remains have remained on the mountain for three decades.

For thirty years, a frozen body on Mount Everest's upper slopes has served as both landmark and silent witness to the mountain's indifference to human ambition — known to climbers simply by the green boots still laced to skeletal feet. Now India has resolved to do what grief and logistics long made impossible: retrieve the remains of a soldier who died in 1996 and return him to his family for the rites his tradition requires. The mission is as much an act of national conscience as it is a feat of mountaineering, asking whether the dead we leave in extreme places are ever truly beyond our reach

India Plans Daring Mission to Recover 'Green Boots' from Everest After 30 Years

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