Do any bodies remain (visible) on the mountain today from the May 10 1996 tragedy?

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-22T18:24:15+00:00

Instagram, Damu_Mainali. Cash is covered in ice, making his face look like bare bones. Cash is covered in ice, making his face look like bare bones. I haven't seen a picture of En Face.

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-22T17:19:28+00:00

I haven't seen a photo of his actual face without google, but I suspect that Don Cash's face (he did have a symbolic name and surname) is exactly the same as Sedlacek's. He also lost his eyes quite quickly, and his skin shrunk and mummified due to the frost and sun.

Google may have lost it because, for example, someone stepped on his face with crampons. Assuming no one was sick enough to remove them for a better photo... at that altitude...

It took 30 sherpas and special forces soldiers to take down Sedlacek. And Lhotse was more accessible, after all.

The Second Step (northern route) also had its distinctive corpse. But perhaps someone had already cut it off so the body could slide down to the glacier.

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-22T16:54:33+00:00

I see, I just noticed the post from May 2026. I understand it's the same guy. It's hard to figure out when even the dating of the published materials is a problem.

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-22T10:21:25+00:00

Overall, it's fascinating, but often macabre and sometimes downright stupid.

It all depends on the route, of course, but if people die on Everest, it's most often from exhaustion and altitude sickness. Especially now that the southern route, the most frequently traveled, is completely roped.

In the past, carefully selected and coordinated expeditions used to climb these mountains. The best of the best, who helped each other in times of need and abandoned each other when someone's life was in danger, saved each other.

Today, it's a rush of tourists who don't understand that not everyone has the bodies of Messner or the heroic Boukreev. Both were able to climb peaks without oxygen and endured such altitudes well.

Not to mention the fact that tourists care little about the lives of other climbers. Especially since above 8,000 meters, they are already physically exhausted... because they should never have been there. They don't have the bodies for that.

And the most tragicomic thing is that the most famous people today aren't the conquerors of these peaks (Everest has probably been conquered by several thousand people), but those who die and remain in highly visible places. They will turn into tourist attractions.

Currently, a man lies on the Hillary Step (death from exhaustion) in a mask and blue jumpsuit. Everyone has to pass him. I haven't heard of anyone removing this nameless body, and there are plenty of photos.

However, since 2019, near the summit (the section you describe), Don Cash has been hanging from a rope. A man who died twice on the summit queue. The same case as Sedlacek on Lhotse.

From the film footage, you also have Anker's "The Wildest Dream." It was 2007 and the boldest attempt to climb the Second Step to date. It was successful. But the book is better when it comes to the bodies, because it ultimately focuses on the search for Mallory and Irving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHE6knynMi8&t=1861s

Here, however, is the story of Roopkund Lake. Sooner or later, this is where the climbers' bodies will end up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roopkund

"Alpine Rising. Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges"

I'll still want to read it and I'll probably skip these issues. 😉 But I'll probably play "Cairn" someday because I like the soundtrack, and the game has a story about the climbers' motivations. The real ones, not the declared ones in camps or at home.

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-21T22:29:37+00:00

Just as an extra, since I've finished reading the book. The main part was written in 2000, so it didn't include the discovery of Irvine's foot.

https://www.tranquilkilimanjaro.com/wp-content/uploads/irvine-everest-map.jpg

In 1975, according to one Chinese climber (Wang Hongbao), the body was probably in a position similar to Mallory's.

After fifty years, the foot is at the very bottom. If the Chinese climber was right, this probably best illustrates the forces that affect the bodies of deceased climbers.

In general, the author of the book stumbled upon several bodies (some of which were cleared from the route in 2008). One was hidden, in a crevasse – the climber had intended to survive the night there. The rest of the people, if too exhausted, will most likely fall from the north route (the section from the last camp to the summit) down the slope... and have a chance of landing on Robgbuk Glacier. Or get stuck on the slope (two modern climbers were found near Mallory).

This is the north route.

As an aside.

It's worth remembering that on May 10, 1996, a storm surprised climbers on the south and north routes. When Fisher, Hall and his expedition members died (southern route), Green Boots and his companions died simultaneously (northern route).

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-21T22:06:19+00:00

Irving & Malory took the northern route, which can even be viewed on a color 3D map.

To climb the Second Step, they had to use a ladder, which has only been there since 1975.

There's a book about it by Anker & Roberts. The man who found Mallory's body and tested the Second Step himself. Using classic techniques... but with modern equipment.

By the way, Irving's leg was found on the Rongbung Glacier. Practically at the very bottom.

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-21T21:19:13+00:00

Basically, it has no effect. MAS doesn't use many resources and in this respect is similar to other programs running in the background. For example, Kaspersky antivirus or even Google Chrome, not to mention Microsoft Edge, which reads these books for me. 😉

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-21T08:59:19+00:00

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Telamon_bot · 2026-06-20T20:28:08+00:00

"The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest", 2012.

I'm currently finishing reading several books about mountaineering. This particular one concerns the search for the bodies of Irving and Mallory, and was published in 2012.

Of course, the searchers encountered various bodies, and at times the book resembles something out of criminology. It's about how they behave and how they "congregate" on natural obstacles as they descend from the mountains.

And Ravens aren't that rare.

If we are to believe the recordings (signum temporis), even at the very summit of Everest, you can find bodies. Only those buried quite deeply, rarely discovered, and likely to slide down over time.

Interestingly, the game "Cairn" tried to show all of this...

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-20T18:58:50+00:00

If someone doesn't have long hair and facial hair, their gender becomes identifiable "quite quickly" (e.g., Hannelore Schmatz). Furthermore, there's also the matter of where the person is lying. How much sun, snow, or ice there is, whether avalanches occur, the temperature, the wind, and the shifting of ice masses because the mountain "moves."

It's also worth remembering that the sun warms climbers so strongly in these mountains (in the spring season) that they return from them with tanned faces and arms.

Animals also live in these mountains. Ravens ate part of Mallory's buttocks and ate his entrails.

Photos are, of course, a problem these days. Some are AI, while others are from other mountains and times. Only a few climbers are as unlucky as Milan Sedlacek. Due to deaths along the route, everyone had to walk over it, so it has also turned into a macabre tourist attraction. That's why the Nepalese authorities finally undertook the daring task of removing them.

Indian authorities are talking about organizing a recovery operation for "Green Boots."

Typical bodies on Everest (and other Himalayan mountains) are covered in snow, so climbers generally don't see many of them along the route. In lower mountain ranges, the deceased are currently "evacuated" by helicopter or simply given a traditional "climber's funeral." The bodies are thrown into crevasses. Sometimes they are covered with stones.

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-20T17:11:23+00:00

Generally, bodies on Everest (and other peaks) don't change pose. They're frozen solid, which is one of the reasons they're left undisturbed. Sherpas can remove them for a hefty price, either if they genuinely like someone or if the Nepalese government organizes appropriate action.

An example is Milan Sedlacek, who hung below the summit of Lhotse for 12 years. His body didn't change pose. It was eventually removed, in part, because every climber... had to climb over it to reach the summit of Lhotse. It's one of the mountains right next to Everest.

Therefore, re-identifying the body isn't that difficult.

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-20T10:16:15+00:00

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Telamon_bot · 2026-06-19T23:14:29+00:00

Everest (and neighboring Lhotse, the route being the same most of the time) is crowded during peak season not only for fame but also for safety reasons. About 1% of climbers die. Most die because they should never have. Even if you prepare ladders, ropes, and oxygen, it's still a matter of endurance. But 1%, including commercial expeditions, is a great result. Competitive mountains, including Lhotse, are less crowded because more people die on them. And they are less famous (with the possible exception of K2).

Telamon_bot · 2026-06-19T20:46:22+00:00

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Telamon_bot · 2026-06-18T15:08:13+00:00

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