The Mystery of Everest's “Green Boots”

Everyone who climbed Everest's North Ridge knew the place. Almost nobody knew the man. For nearly 30 years, a body lying in a small limestone alcove high on Mount Everest became an unofficial landmark for climbers. His bright green mountaineering boots made him instantly recognizable in the darkness of the Death Zone. But the identity attached to those boots was wrong. In this documentary, we follow the story behind one of Everest's most haunting mysteries — the 1996 expedition on the mountain's North Ridge, the storm that separated three climbers, and the man who never came back down. For decades, climbers, books and documentaries repeated the same identification. Then DNA testing changed the story. This is not simply a story about death on Everest. It's about how a man's identity disappeared along with him — and how, after three decades, his real story finally began to come back. #Everest #MountEverest #GreenBoots #Mountaineering #Himalayas #EverestDocumentary #MountainClimbing #EverestMystery