'Walking over bodies' What Climbers Pass on Mount Everest is Pretty Grim...

For those who succeed, climbing Mount Everest is an amazing achievement, and one that they can look back on for the rest of their lives. A little over 5,000 people have managed to reach the summit and safely get back down again, but for others, it's not that simple. Rainbow Valley is an area of Mount Everest located at 8,000 metres in altitude, on the peak's northern ridge. Climbers who pass this section of the mountain will be met with the grisly sight of numerous dead climbers who have been unsuccessful in scaling this part of the mountain, giving the area its name from their brightly-coloured jackets, oxygen supplies and climbing equipment. It is the point on the mountain where the most climbers have perished, and, due to the location and nature of the region where they died, some of the bodies are impossible to reach or remove, and are left where they fell. These climbers are likely to have been killed by running out of oxygen, falling, or harsh weather.
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[@samblundell1872]

I trekked to EBC (base camp) 2015 we arrived on the 24th August and we originally planned to camp at Base Camp that night. Due to the poor weather the year before our guide (my dad) decided we would head back to GorakShep instead of staying as it was congested and lots of climbers were attempted to summit that missed out on the previous season. The massive earthquake that followed the next day killed over 8,000 people in Nepal and the avalanche that wiped out Everest Base Camp killed 55 people. The decision to leave early hurt at the time but we felt it was the right thing to do, as we were only trekkers and did not want to get in the way of the climbers who payed a fortune two years in a row to achieve their dream, it was a decision that may have saved our lives! RIP to all those who have lost their lives on that mountain.

[@frederickdavis6393]

What was the difference between you being a trekker and them being climbers? Sorry not knowledgeable about mt climbing. Interesting story! Thank God for your dad’s intuition! RIP to the 55 ppl 😢. Thanks for sharing!

[@JamesBond-hy4kv]

@@frederickdavis6393 think it’s people who travel or walk to areas; so they are not climbers.

[@shawnleider]

WOW good story and tragic for those who perished

[@rarecharisma]

@@frederickdavis6393 I believed what he meant was they are hikers and not climbers..

[@highsupply2036]

I want to be a climber, those climbers died doing what they loved, they didn’t give up climbing even til the very end

[@DiamondDee7622]

Even if I am the poorest person in the world you couldn't pay me all the money in the world to climb that.

[@Themoralstories1906]

Girl🤣😂 I’ll be quite on my tent without even complain 💀🤣

[@smilealwaysnatasha3423]

@@Themoralstories1906if you don’t die up there ❤

[@almightyaarong9621]

I’m climbing

[@MollyLara-bq9cs]

Idc what yall say a win is a win 💰

[@mygodness3553]

I’ll climb that shit One life you have man

[@jeffjames4064]

I'll take your word that there's a peak on mt Everest.

[@almightyaarong9621]

I won’t I’ll go one day

[@user-gx1wd9te8d]

@@almightyaarong9621you won’t I promise you that

[@almightyaarong9621]

@@user-gx1wd9te8d why u promising me I’ll get too the top🦾

[@muayboran6111]

@@almightyaarong9621the exact type of person to forget that you need to climb all the way back down😂…

[@revekat2053]

@@muayboran6111in 20 years you won’t have to climb down anymore. A robot will do it for you. 🤓

[@allietaylor4991]

I was lucky enough to go to Tibet doing photography for a company my dad worked for. While I was there, there was huge news of a 16 year old girl who was climbing Mt. Everest with her father, who ended up passing away about halfway up. She didn't know weather to go back down, or finish on her own. She ended up finishing all on her own and then saved and brought back down. WILD. how incredible.

[@10willybilly]

What a brave young girl. Probably thought her dad would of wanted her to finish. Amazing

[@JinxMarie1985]

I've heard and watched many many documentaries on Mount Everest. And I've never heard that story......

[@JinxMarie1985]

You're saying she brought down her father's body?? Because that is impossible. Its almost impossible for a solo 16 year old to make it to the summit. How did she get a pass? How was she able to climb the second hardest mountain to climb at 16. Your story makes no sense. So yeah I'm gonna look it up

[@JinxMarie1985]

Also she would have needed a sherpa.

[@JinxMarie1985]

Okay so, she was 18, never went up there with her father. She had sherpas to help her. She also climbed all of the highest mountains in America.

[@GeneralGouda]

Not only did they leave the bodies where they are, the locals and guides use them as markers. They associate a different area of the mountain with each body.

[@OskiiNotBando]

Shit rlly wicked if you think abt it

[@yaeli_i_guess]

@@TheRealBrownShadyoooh an edgy boy!

[@shoobzy3431]

​@@TheRealBrownShadyDamn you're so cool I bet you get all the girls tough guy

[@Mila_Brearey]

If you knew even the bare basics, then you would know how ignorant your comment is! The only deceased climber was referred to as "green boots" because of his green boots and his location in a cave close to the summit ridge. This is for future identifying purposes for his family. He is in the "death zone" (next to zero oxygen), and cannot be brought down safely.

[@QueenMFLaurie]

Greenboots keeps coming up in my head when watching these

[@korimajhor1]

I have asthma. My body would look at me and say "girl."

[@JinxMarie1985]

There are many bodies on the way up and down the mountain. They are usually covered with flags or covered up with a blanket.

[@biswasronit]

Many are open, still.

[@johnsimpson4009]

Video about walking over bodies and not 1 body shown. Click bait

[@staceparsons3034]

“Every dead body on Mt. Everest was once a highly motivated person…”

[@lornaginetteharrison7168]

I don’t think climbing Mount Everest these days is an amazing achievement. It’s definitely an egotistical "achievement" though. You pay a company a massive amount of money, join huge crowds and queue all the way up the mountain, with Sherpas and your climbing company guides doing the majority of the hardest work, and leave tonnes of trash in your wake. If you die in the attempt, held up in said queues, then you’ve thrown your life away on a selfish, pointless endeavour for absolutely nothing.

[@meredithheath5272]

I'm afraid I agree.

[@AlyGSpirit]

Your voice is soooo soothing. Thank you

[@ABerCul]

Most died from altitude sickness which makes them to weak to climb down, worst brain fog, lack of sufficient normal breathing air, and they can't be helped because everyone is weak, foggy, & barely surviving themselves. They are all aware if they can not get themselves down then they want come down at all!

[@squeeze1321]

Imaging being a body frozen there for decades. Such beautiful scenery yet extremely grotesque.

[@tracieramson9151]

I bet some Climber have PTSD after stepping over Multiple Dead Bodies

[@L.C.1]

They knew they were going to see that though. Some bodies are even used as markers.

[@LiquidCrushable]

Real simple step over the bodies like you did everyone else on your way up in life. Stepping over or on someone to get where they want to be doesn't bother them at all

[@meredithheath5272]

You couldn't be more correct. Unfortunately, there exist a lot more psychopaths than I would have thought - took me time, unfortunately to learn this.

[@filss1890]

I climbed Mt. Everest once, I reached the first base then chickened out, its way too cold and windy up there, 1 step up there is like you running 1 mile without stopping.

[@SGames69]

lie

[@kingalexado4380]

@@SGames69you can pay for a Sherpa to take you up to the mountain, so there’s a chance he isn’t lying

[@queenofdahouse1591]

Respect.

[@Unlicensed-egg]

(Not) Fun fact; sometimes people climbing Mount Everest use dead bodies as landmarks to find their way back

[@shaaway7847]

Prayers 🙏🙏 for all

[@rohanholland4497]

Only 5000 ? I thought it would be much more than this by now….

[@Leipuanani]

6,338 as of Jan 2023

[@meredithheath5272]

That's terrible - they do all the work, including "babysitting" people. I thought the cut would be much higher. 😢😢😢

[@HyoukaAnalystLore3452]

I can safely say, from the comfort of my bed, that I will never in Life, so something like this. :)

[@raspailgranouille7927]

They should thank the sherpas. They are the ones who carries all their stuffs and basically the only reason why they survive 🙄

[@GrizzlyAdams101]

You talk as if sherpas are slaves? They are paid 10s of thousands of dollars to do it. They still deserved to be respected and thanked, but you say it like their slaves or something.

[@simonswan1916]

@@GrizzlyAdams101they *sort of* are, if your options are let you family starve because you can’t afford to feed them due to colonial economic conditions, or become a guide, most end up becoming a guide… wether they really want to or not. It’s basically economic slavery

[@jsksbsjskskw]

@@simonswan1916 if you are doing any job anywhere that is because of your economic slavery.

[@redvelvet9215]

@@jsksbsjskskwbut the chances if you risking your life is low compared to climbing a cold, high altitude, low oxygen mountain every day

[@ashndj23]

@jaytomlinson1848amen to that! People aren’t ready to hear that though.

[@bluevalentine2009]

There is a small portion of this video that shows how fast clouds actually move. You and I driving at sea level look up and see clouds that look like they're barely moving. But they are 30,000 feet in the air. Here we see clouds at 30,000 feet at the summit and the actual high speed at which they move.

[@annep.1905]

Not all the climbers in Rainbow Valley were unsuccessful in scaling Everest. Some climbers scaled it successfully several times, before dying in a later attempt.

[@tubebammy]

I heard there’s one guy that climbers consider a major checkpoint because it’s like real close to the peek but that’s where he failed at.

[@cinferoMusic]

You may be talking about 'Green Boots', and he is considered a major checkpoint yes. He is an unknown climber who died in the 1996 disaster, along with 7 others. He is located around 8,000 meters up. And he sits in a cave laying down, legs stretched out, hood over head, and arms closed. He has not been officially identified, but he is believed to be Tsewang Paljor. Supposedly he was moved in 2014 to a different location. But nevertheless, he is still one of the most famous bodies on Everest.

[@rumpwrangler1102]

Green boots is on the Northeast route whichis from the China side. Not as many people climb that route

[@arnoldlee2148]

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Go on, you'll have fun they said. Life's an adventure or nothing at all, they said. They died doing what they loved, they said. Winners of the Darwin awards. Do not go where angels fear to tread.

[@mamavswild]

They might be winners of the Darwin Awards to YOU, overweight and balding who yells at the television every Sunday morning at men smashing to each other, but these people DID die in the pursuit of what they loved. They failed, but they at least got up and got out there. Don’t get too high of a couch my friend…it might be dangerous.

[@JamesBond-hy4kv]

Don’t go where black people don’t go. Everest and cuddling dangerous animals or outer space.

[@paulgambino7365]

they died doing what they loved?? so they loved to end up dead on Mount Everest I call that un experienced thinking they knew it all and they didn't I call that stupidity.

[@arnoldlee2148]

@@paulgambino7365 Agreed. Reread my remarks from the perspective of sarcasm. As it was intended. Peace

[@sky_068]

Never mind im happy to see the vedio than to wisting my life to climb that mountain 😢but hoping and praying for everyone climb 🙏 that mountain to be safely back home after climb that mountain

[@dannysimmons3167]

Very expensive and dangerous. Fortunately I’m not rich so I guess I won’t be making the trip any time soon

[@DiamondDee7622]

Even if I was rich you still wouldn't get me to climb it.

[@dannysimmons3167]

@@DiamondDee7622 you just have to see the bodies laying by the wayside. Don’t care to go out like that. A person has a right to destroy their selves in any way they see fit though.

[@DiamondDee7622]

@@dannysimmons3167 Yes. I agree with you on that they have a right to do that. Not the way I would want to pass my self.

[@deltastones6702]

Sometimes it’s best to be poor…..you don’t do Everest, nor go see the titanic shipwreck…

[@holoceph3916]

Yep. All so they can brag at dinner parties and feed their egos

[@captainsensiblejr.]

"Grisly"- gruesome, bloody "Grizzly" a North American brown bear.

[@RandomxGirlxx]

Beautiful Explanation

[@TanyaM420]

My sister climbed up to the first summit on Mt. Everest in August, she loved it :)

[@woolypuffin392]

The dead bodies or the trash everywhere?

[@frederickdavis6393]

Or the thousands of dollars paid and the Sherpas (risking their lives cuz it’s their only way of making any real money to support their family) doing all the real work so ur sister could have a “cool” selfie and story. Awesome 👏 🙄

[@asagoodfriend]

@@frederickdavis6393 this comment!🌟

[@frederickdavis6393]

@@asagoodfriend Thanks!

[@psychoboo8581]

@@frederickdavis6393what makes you think the Sherpa’s that climb and guid the tourist don’t like it? Do you live there? We’re you there to witness them hear it or do you always spew shit from your mouth? Quite being bitter. There are some Sherpa’s (not all) that enjoy it. It’s an amazing and risky accomplishment. So maybe do your research before spitting shit out of your mouth. 😊 have a good day

[@KingKrispyTwo]

THIS IS THE THIRD VIDEO ABOUT MOUNT EVEREST I WATCHED IN A ROW TODAY 💀

[@___abnsmok3]

Climbing may be hard But I’ll for sure get back down easily 💀I just need a sled and a parachute

[@erickmack4131]

Build a zip line

[@markshillaw3536]

Green boots 👢

[@user-or9jy3dy7y]

POV our childhood dream: climbing a mountain just to touch clouds.

[@lordbenjenstark3792]

Actually more people coming down from the summit than going up.

[@vickieallsopp137]

I would love to try, but I know it's impossible for me. And that's ok, I have got really super dizzy a few just watching them reach the top and swing their carmera around..🤢😮🤔not a feeling I was expecting 😬😆

[@amymckay23]

No photos? How boring.

[@pietro4772]

You're mostly going to see colourful jackets and trousers partly covered by snow. Let the dead bury their dead and follow Jesus the Christ before whom every knee will bow. Amen.

[@jesuismilliardaire43]

Now this is the bar they set as an achievement people often says!

[@MikeyJMJ]

You'd think the bodies would eventually be covered in the snow

[@paulclissold1525]

The greenhouse effect is everywhere

[@humbertocobian4740]

Too windy I imagine. It would scour anything up there.

[@shamoy1000]

Snow on the mountain doesn't pile up like on a glacier. It gets stripped away by wind and sun radiation soon after it falls.

[@yahamo2598]

У меня тоже также было с квартирой в который мы жили 5 лет там был красивый Лейк ,соседи мои дети там родились и потом бац нам не продлили спустя пять дет

[@ProjectRobux]

but theres more than 5k videos at youtube that people summit

[@LostGenerationn]

sadly our Everester Mr.Tapi Mra has gone missing trying to conquer Kyari satam mountain in our state and is being neglected by our government.No serious effort has been made by the administration,a pioneer in his field being neglected is very sad.Also he is the first everester from our state Arunachal Pradesh.

[@ohsuzeyq_]

That's terribly sad....

[@carolescutt2257]

Luckily tswewang Pilor old green boots has been moved so he no longer has that indignation after he waskoinedby David Sharp 😢

[@rollastoney]

Put me on a chopper and fly me to the top. The site will still be amazing. Wouldn’t be able to say I climbed to the top but I would be able to say something…

[@ilarious5729]

Well given that only one person has landed a helicopter there ever, and 5000 has climbed there I think you have better chance by just climbing

[@khworker1322]

Good luck with that

[@garbhanmyles]

That might be more of an accomplishment than actually climbing it. Getting a chopper up there is redonkulously challenging due to the air being so thin making getting enough lift really hard.

[@xoxoDonkey]

Theres a pretty obvious reason why helicopters don't fly to the top...

[@michaelstone384]

The only place in the world that you can go up and might not come back fucking down.

[@FatHalibutz32]

Far from it there partner... maybe rethink that one through. Tell you what though! There is only one thing you can go down on and you never make it back up from. YOUR MOMMA

[@michaelstone384]

@@FatHalibutz32 how did you know

[@ngndnd]

airplanes exist

[@qine6559]

They literally walk over dead bodies. It is symbolic. How/what the rich (nations) are willing to do to entertain themselves!

[@GODCHOSEISRAEL70]

The fool dies before his time

[@nonoyaya3884]

Can't feel sorry for those who climb it or die there. Its a suicide climb...

[@darkmatter2255]

But any how death is death It will come with or without anyone's will

[@wirechair]

Wow! So if the bodies are still there then do their families know they are missing? Did the families try to pick up the bodies? How will archeologists in the area tell the difference between a recent death vs mummies who have been there for thousands of years?

[@sylviawilson6160]

The world's most expensive graveyard.

[@Bradywhite7208]

I want to climb so bad. Sadly it’s not that simple. It take a long time, lots of money, and a huge mental toll and seeing dead people, thinking about your safety, and the actual climbing itself

[@your5thdad.412]

Create a line of oxygen from ground to peak . Anyone who gets empty can use it to fill it up 😂😂

[@adamcuneo7189]

I first heard about this a couple years ago, it makes sense why there would be bodies up there, because the mountain is too high to bring them down. Climbers apparently use the bodies as checkpoints, lol 😂

[@TrixieKaren]

Ego thy name is man ! And you find frozen bodies funny .? I hope you haven't reproduced

[@adamcuneo7189]

@@TrixieKaren I'm not laughing at the frozen bodies, I'm laughing at how they actually use those frozen bodies as checkpoints.

[@patricklowndes6758]

Why did you climb it ? Because it's there If you don't climb it, it will still be there 😐

[@amin77illinois]

How’s it amazing to climb a dangerous mountain that high up when still you haft to try getting back down in harsh freezing weather conditions🤷🏽‍♂️ What a be amazing if you tried walking through the city of Chicago and find out whether you’ll either make it out alive in a corrupted City full of gangs at war That’ll be the challenge of the century👍🏽

[@4cClubT]

for those who had to go out n get something from there car in the wintertime all know it's a grizzly site & know it's cold AF

[@meredithheath5272]

For several months, some months were winter months, I walked the neighbor's dog while the owner was in the hospital. Every cold, winter day, making sure I dressed warmly (in MA.) Enough for me 😂😂😂😂

[@chaitern6075]

Yea they gonna look back at their lives thinking "i successfully climbed everest whhoooo!! Oh and 3 sherpas died in the process of carrying my stuf but hey i climbed the mountain"

[@samelmasri8988]

Imagine dying with a Stanley in your hand.

[@lancer2442]

Few joints few pre made soups lucozade and r kid we’ll be up n down in no time Happy days

[@patsyohara5870]

How much training does it take to be able to climb it?

[@messydessy]

I would be one of the bodies the climb over if I were too climb everest Hensel the name EV -ER - REST

[@oGrasshoppero]

What is considered an achievement is arbitrarily determined through marketing. I could pay billions to market "hanging upside down for a year" as an amazing achievement and people would get brainwashed the same way.

[@meredithheath5272]

Definitely Correct!

[@joannabaparileszczynska]

Removed my comment because I’m in no mood to discuss. It was just an rhetorical question posed as a reaction to this short.

[@pietro4772]

Well, I for one would have appreciated the opportunity to read your question, even more so if controversial. I find censorship more concerning than the cadavers on that mountain.

[@willbryant9297]

Go on

[@joannabaparileszczynska]

@@willbryant9297 I have no memory of what I initially wrote….. 😅

[@hed2410]

I need nice rich oxygen. 🌲🌿🌳

[@dan.mountain_man]

People ask whats the point of climbing Everest. To climb it. Thats it. Everest has no mercy, but neither does living. You may not freeze for not trying but cancer can make you wish you could have tried and truly lived. Everyone acts like life cant fuck your shit up at anytime. Everest shows its relentless but possible gift, firsthand.

[@randlewhitney6560]

I climb a mountain every day. That my goal

[@snowman333-]

YET it is illegal to dive the fitz

[@gorporpio]

I used to wonder if I'd ever get there but now I think anyone who does is literally suicidal.

[@selfesteem3447]

Hence how Mount Everest gets its name,..."Ever Rest" ! Grizzly Name !

[@meredithheath5272]

Very Clever! Appropriate!

[@gaynorpatterson2915]

I hope one day we find out if Mallory and Irvine actually made it to the top. Then they would be the first ones not Hillary and Tenzig. Then they’d have to rewrite history. Wow

[@pizzajeanz4410]

Let me climb a deadly mountain just for the sake of bragging rights

[@FreeSoul132]

Are those birds or UFOs in the last pic shown ?

[@Ride2Live420]

Put some astronauts up in the death zone and see how ridiculous space travel is.

[@paulclissold1525]

It needs to end

[@darkmatter2255]

Why

[@MantasticMonk]

Om Shanti

[@muhannadalghamdi5523]

climb K2 from the east that’s what i called achievement

[@angharadswansea9343]

Please correct the grammar. Brutal.

[@goannightmare9000]

I wanna climb it, if u know anyone who xan help me hoin thier group, plz reply

[@potatowarrior333]

A grizzly sight I won't show u

[@saquib3794]

Your voice makes me remember Morgan Freeman

[@winters-ghost89]

Like most other things it's been destroyed it's literally a day trip now

[@ggm4me]

the worlds highest graveyard

[@emberhydra]

That's also how the mount everest grows in high

[@KellyRheaRay]

Why not parachute down maybe?

[@PossessedKid]

Bro said 80,000 meters 💀

[@Lilmamasteeda]

It’s not even a super achievement anymore. Too many people wanting fame for the stupidest things

[@RiverSprite30]

It's just a dead body. It's not a big deal.

[@Rugelacharugula]

Maybe the idea isn’t to do it so you can “look back on it.” Maybe do it because you’re a mountaineer who knows wtf they’re doing.

[@luverxr]

mount..everest..ain’t got s* on me..

[@mattwilson9585]

How many are burning in Hell RIGHT NOW... JESUS CHRIST SAVES

[@eileenlocke7877]

Very sad

[@GOSPEL276]

Mount everest is a mountain of corpses

[@robertburk5550]

F it, step over em.

[@lowelldellalba8003]

Get the Nepalese navy to get all the bodies off of everest and bury the bodies and have prayers said.

[@ThatSlovakGuy]

Free loot💀💀

[@ellmatic]

"those who succeed is an amazing achievement." grammar much?

[@jeromecrockett2311]

Need to stop saying amazing achievement you just inspiring more people to attempt that shit

[@JaySaint999]

The joe Rogan podcast brought me here

[@donhagerty5669]

THE PEOPLE THAT LEAVE ALL THAT TRASH UP THERE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES, AND FINED HEAVILY, ENOUGH TO COVER COSTS OF PICKING THEIR GARBAGE

[@koreybrown4072]

Stay off that mountain!!!!!!