7 Thrilling Mount Everest Tales

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Thrilling Mount Everest tales! Not a lot of people are brave enough to climb the mountain without mercy. Here are stories from the dark side of Mt. Everest.

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7: Yuichiro Miura
Yuichiro Miura was born on the 12th of October 1932. It would seem like Miura, who is currently 85-years-old, has practically dedicated his life to achieving the impossible on Mount Everest. In 1970 he skied down the mountain’s South Col, from an elevation of over 26,000 feet, after an ardous trek. In 2 minutes and 20 seconds he had skied 6,600 feet when he fell 1320 feet from the Lhotse face. Miura slowed his descent by using a large parachute and came to a full stop only 250 feet from the edge of large, deep crevasse. His exploits were documented in the 1975 film ‘The Man Who Skied Down Everest’ by Canadian film maker Budge Crawley. The film was the first sports documentary to ever win an Academy Award. In 2003, when Miura was 70 years old, he became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest. His record was subsequently broken.
6: Anshu Jamsenpa
32-year-old Anshu Jamsenpa made history as the first woman in the world to reach the top of Mount Everest twice in 1 season. Incredibly, her 2 ascents took place in the space of only 5 days. Anshu Jamsenpa is from Bomdilla, in Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian state that occupies the country’s most north-eastern position. She has 2 daughters and her husband is the president of the Arunachal Mountaineering and Adventure Sports Association. Anshu Jamsenpa started her first Everest climb on the 2nd of April 2017, after taking the blessings of the 14th Dalai Lama. At the Everest Base Camp, located at an altitude of 17,600 feet she took the 38 days schedule for acclimatization. She then started her main expedition and reached the summit on the 16th of May 2017, along with 17 other climbers.
5: Selina Dicker
In 2014, during her first attempt to summit the mountain an avalanche skilled 16 Sherpas that were ahead just ahead of her, while she was at Base Camp. In April 2015, a catastrophic earthquake hit the mountain causing massive avalanches that claimed the lives of 22 people. Additionally, 120 people were injured or declared missing as a result of the avalanches.
4: Hannelore Schmatz
The Sherpas had urged the woman to continue the descent but she laid down to rest and never got up again. Climbers once called the popular South East Ridge Route to the top of Mount Everest “Rainbow Valley” due to the numerous frozen courts is that littered the route, all dressed in colorful climbing gear.For years climbers had encountered the woman’s body on their way to the summit, until the wind blew it off the edge of the mountain.
3: "Green Boots"
Up until 2014, climbers who took the North Cole route to the top of Mount Everest would inevitably pass “Green Boots,” one of the mountain’s most infamous land marks. “Green Boots” is the frozen courts of a climber whose identity was never confirmed but whom many believe to be an Indian man named Tsewang Paljor. The curled body rests at an altitude of 27,900 feet. The expedition to the summit that Parljor was a part of was reportedly marred by mistakes and only yielded 1 survivor, a man named Harbhajan Singh. According to Singh, he had urged the other members of the expedition to abandon the climb as the weather conditions were no longer favorable. Singh believes that they had succumbed to “summit fever.” 2: Maurice Wilson
His initial plan was to crash an airplane into the upper slopes of Mount Everest and then climb to the summit. Wilson had no experience as a mountaineer or as an aviator and he set out to learn more what would be needed for his bold expedition. He bought a Gypsy Moth aircraft and crashed it in a field near Bedford. The Air Ministry forbade him from making the flight to India. Wilson ignored the ban and 2 weeks later he landed in India despite several attempts of stopping him made by the British Government. He did not get permission to enter Tibet on foot and spent the winter in Darjeeling, where he met 3 Sherpas that had taken part in the 1933 Everest expedition led by Hugh Ruttledge.
1: Marco Siffredi
For extreme sports enthusiasts, snowboarding down Mount Everest may be regarded as the culmination of a lifelong dream. French snowboarder and mountaineer Marco Siffredi hailed from a climbing family. His brother had died in an avalanche in Chamonix and his father was a mountain guide. After descending a number of peaks in the Chamonix valley he decided to set his goals higher. In June 1999, when he was 20 years old, Siffredi descended the highly-coveted Nant Blanc on the Aguille Verte via snowboard. The Nant Blanc is 3280-foot line that averages 55 degrees, with several 60-degree portions.