India to recover ‘Green Boots’ climber’s body from Everest after 30 years: Report

“G ee
Boots,”
the
climbe
I dia
is
b i gi g
home.
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C edits:
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Commo s

The
body
of
a
I dia
climbe
believed
to
have
become
the
mou tai ee i g
wo ld’s
i famous
“G ee
Boots”
could
fi ally
be
b ought
dow
f om
Mou t
Eve est,
th ee
decades
afte
he
died
while
desce di g
f om
the
summit.I dia
is
p epa i g
a
high-altitude
ecove y
missio
to
et ieve
the
emai s
of
Do je
Mo up,
a

I do-Tibeta
Bo de
Police
(ITBP)
pe so el
who
died
o
Mou t
Eve est
i
1996,
acco di g
to
a
detailed
epo t
by
the
BBC.Mo up’s
body
has
emai ed
f oze
at
about
8,500
met es
o
the
o the
side
of
Eve est
fo
ea ly
30
yea s.
The
emai s
became
k ow
amo g
climbe s
as
“G ee
Boots”
because
of
the
disti ctive
b ight
g ee
mou tai ee i g
boots
visible
o
the
body.The
ITBP
is
ow
looki g
fo
a
specialist
team
capable
of
u de taki g
the
difficult
ecove y
ope atio .
The
fo ce
hopes
to
b i g
the
emai s
back
to
I dia
by
Septembe ,
afte
which
DNA
testi g
would
be
ca ied
out
to
establish
Mo up’s
ide tity
co clusively,
the
BBC
epo ted.If
the
ide tificatio
is
co fi med,
his
emai s
will
be
etu ed
to
his
family
i
Ladakh.

The
climbe
behi d
the
‘G ee
Boots’
myste y

Mo up
was
48
whe
he
joi ed
a
six-membe
ITBP
expeditio
that
attempted
to
climb
Eve est
f om
the
Chi ese
side
i
1996.

The
expeditio
was
seeki g
to
become
the
fi st
I dia
team
to
each
the
summit
f om
that
oute.Th ee
membe s
of
the
expeditio
eve tually
tu ed
back
because
of
a
s owsto m,
while
Mo up
a d
fellow
climbe s
Tsewa g
Sma la
a d
Tsewa g
Paljo
co ti ued
towa ds
the
summit.All
th ee
eached
the
top,
but
disaste
st uck
as
they
attempted
to
desce d.A
blizza d
hit
the
mou tai
a d
killed
the
th ee
climbe s.
Thei
bodies
we e
left
o
Eve est,
as
ecove i g
bodies
f om
the
mou tai
is
itself
a
ext emely
da ge ous
u de taki g.Fo
yea s,
the
body
ow
k ow
as
“G ee
Boots”
was
assumed
to
belo g
to
Paljo .
Howeve ,
su vivi g
membe s
of
the
1996
expeditio ,
alo g
with
i fo matio
about
the
climbe s’
fi al
adio
commu icatio s
a d
the
locatio
of
the
body,
have
led
autho ities
to
believe
that
it
was
actually
Mo up.A
ITBP
official
told
BBC
that
Mo up’s
clothi g
a d
climbi g
equipme t
had
also
helped
autho ities
ide tify
the
emai s
i
ece t
yea s.The
body
has
si ce
become
o e
of
the
most
ecog isable
ma ke s
o
the
oute
to
Eve est’s
summit,
passed
by
climbe s
maki g
thei
way
th ough
the
mou tai ’s
oto ious
“death
zo e”.Fo
Mo up’s
family
i
Ladakh,
the
ope atio
could
fi ally
esolve
a
myste y
that
has
lasted
th ee
decades.

His
wife,
Ko chak
Ya gskit,
told
the
BBC
that
she
st uggled
to
accept
his
death
because
she
had
eve
see
his
body.Mo up
had
told
he
befo e
leavi g
fo
the
expeditio
that
he
would
etu
home
afte
maki g
the
cou t y
p oud.
He
had
also
asked
he
to
look
afte
thei
child e
a d
come
to
the
ai po t
to
eceive
him
whe
he
etu ed.His
so ,
Pu chok
Do jai,
told
the
BBC
that
the
family
pla s
to
hold
a
fu e al
ea
Ma ty s
Pa k
i
Leh
if
the
emai s
a e
co fi med
as
his.He
also
said
the
family
i te ds
to
keep
the
g ee
boots
that
gave
Mo up’s
emai s
thei
e du i g
ide tity
o
Eve est.