India eyes
Indian authorities are hoping to launch an operation to recover the frozen body of a climber who died on Mount Everest nearly 30 years ago in one of the deadliest disasters ever seen on the world's highest peak. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is soliciting bids from high altitude…
Indian authorities are hoping to launch an operation to recover the frozen body of a climber who died on Mount Everest nearly 30 years ago in one of the deadliest disasters ever seen on the world's highest peak. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) 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. A tender document says the contracted team must bring the body to Delhi by October. It would be one of the most technically demanding recovery operations ever attempted on Everest — "double the danger of normal climbing," according to Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa, the founder of Nepal-based Everest Sherpa Expedition.
