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India Forms Team to Retrieve Everest’s ‘Green Boots’ Body

8/11/2026

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India is assembling a specialist high-altitude team to recover Dorje Morup’s “Green Boots” body from Everest.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is recruiting Sherpa volunteers and aims to finish the recovery by September.
Morup, a 48-year-old Indian climber who died in a May 1996 blizzard, is thought to be the “Green Boots” body.
Authorities must coordinate with Chinese officials to transport the remains across the Tibet-Nepal border to Kathmandu and India.

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India is assembling a specialist high-altitude team to recover Dorje Morup’s “Green Boots” body from Everest.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police is recruiting Sherpa volunteers and aims to finish the recovery by September.
Morup, a 48-year-old Indian climber who died in a May 1996 blizzard, is thought to be the “Green Boots” body.
Authorities must coordinate with Chinese officials to transport the remains across the Tibet-Nepal border to Kathmandu and India.