The body of “Green Boots” (an Indian climber who died in 1996) lies near a cave that all climbers pass on their way to the peak.  Green Boots now serves as a waypoint marker that climbers use to gauge how near they are to the summit.  Green Boots became separated from his party in 1996 and sought this mountain overhang to use as protection from the elements.  He sat there shivering in the cold until he died.  The wind has since blown his body over.

Francys Arseniev, an American women who fell while descending with a group (that included her husband), pleaded with passerby's to save her.  While climbing down the side of a steep section of the mountain, her husband noticed she was missing.  Knowing that he did not have enough oxygen to reach her and return to base camp, he chose to turn back to find his wife anyway.  He fell to his death in the attempt to climb down and reach his dying wife.  Two other climbers did successfully reach her but knew carrying her off of Mount Everest was not an option.  They comforted her for a while before leaving her to die.  Feeling great remorse, they returned eight years later vowing to find the body and enshrine it in an American flag (they succeeded).