[onemoresoop]

Greenboots has been laying there frozen in the snow since the 90s. It even became a landmark for other climbers. Im glad they managed to at least identify the poor soul. Who knows how much longer he’s going to rest there..

[KomoD]

Looks like they might retrieve the body.

> The Indo-Tibetan Border Police 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

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mount-everest-green-boots-body-...

[msephton]

That's mentioned in the article

[sillysaurusx]

A lot of people come to HN for the comments. It’s often useful to gauge a story by public sentiment first.

That said, you’re ultimately correct that it’s in the article, but I appreciated it. :)

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I think Mallory's body was left until 1999. He died in 1924.

[bhickey]

Conrad Anker covered his body in scree. Subsequent expeditions have been unable to locate it. There's speculation that it was secretly removed from the mountain for political reasons.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Political? That sounds odd.

[bhickey]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/01/it-doe...

[mkl]

The location of Mallory's body was unknown until 1999. The location of this one has been known pretty much the whole time.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I think another climber spotted him in the 1930s, but didn't mention it, because he didn't want to have a media circus.

[gokhan]

Is this an AI generated comment?

[fsckboy]

I think—no

[onemoresoop]

For real? You’re pretty off at spotting the LLM patterns and feel.

[gokhan]

well, looks no different than those summary comments on twitter.