2026年6月23日 / 美国东部时间上午8:49 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：西蒙·埃勒里
印度官方希望启动一项行动，找回近30年前在珠穆朗玛峰去世的一名登山者的冻尸，这将是这座世界最高峰有史以来最致命的灾难之一。
印度边境警察部队（印藏边境警察）正在向高空救援机构招标，计划从珠峰北坡找回这位长期以来仅被称为“绿靴子”的登山者的遗体。
一份招标文件显示，中标团队必须在10月前将遗体运往德里。
这将是珠峰有史以来技术要求最高的救援行动之一——尼泊尔珠峰夏尔巴探险公司创始人齐林·江布·夏尔巴表示，其难度是常规登山的两倍。
“对整个救援队来说，这是高风险任务，”夏尔巴告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
齐林曾多次登顶珠峰，并在2024年带领探险队从该地区多座山峰找回了5具遗体。他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，一支训练有素的10人团队可能需要长达一周的时间才能找回“绿靴子”的遗体。
他补充说，在他看来，由于天气条件限制，最早也要等到春季才能开展这项行动，这让人们对招标文件中提到的印度官方6月至10月的时间安排提出了质疑。
印度边境警察部队未回复哥伦比亚广播公司新闻就该计划置评的请求。
谁是“绿靴子”？
“绿靴子”这个昵称源于死者登山时穿的亮绿色登山靴，几十年来，他的遗体一直是珠峰最广为人知的地标之一。齐林表示，这具遗体位于海拔约27000英尺处，已成为从西藏侧攀登这座标志性山峰的登山者的一个阴森的路标点。
“当他们与大本营和其他登山者联络时，会说‘好的，我们现在离绿靴子非常近了’，”他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
该区域属于珠峰的“死亡地带”，海拔超过26200英尺，氧气含量过低，无法长期维持人类生命，就连最基本的行动都极具危险性。
长期以来，人们普遍认为“绿靴子”是28岁的晋美·帕尔乔，一名印度边境警察部队成员。1996年5月10日，他所在的团队尝试登顶珠峰时，在峰顶附近遭遇突如其来的暴风雪，这一事件被乔恩·克拉考尔写入了《进入空气稀薄地带》一书。
该团队中有三名登山者不顾天气恶化继续攀登，最终无一返回。三人中只有“绿靴子”的遗体被发现。
不过，招标文件显示，相关遗体被认定为印度士兵多杰·莫鲁普的，他是帕尔乔的同行登山者。英国《卫报》和法国新闻机构法新社表示，他们看到的文件显示，DNA检测已确认遗体为莫鲁普所有。
“我们必须将他们带回家”
珠峰上被找回的最著名遗体案例之一，是弗朗西斯·阿森蒂耶。1998年，她成为首位不携带辅助氧气登顶珠峰的美国女性，在下山途中不幸遇难。
她的遗体在珠峰上留存了多年，成为主要登山路线上可见的地标，被称为珠峰的“睡美人”。
2007年，由夏尔巴人和其他登山者组成的团队将她的遗体移到了不易被看到的地方，相当于在珠峰上为她举行了葬礼，而非尝试将遗体完整运回。
据信，珠峰上仍留存着200多具遗体，其中许多被留在了登山者遇难的地方，因为救援被认为过于危险或成本高昂。
这一问题一直在全球登山界引发争议：一些人认为应当尊重逝者，将遗体运回；另一些人则认为，开展这类行动会对现役登山者构成不值得承担的风险。部分登山者提前表示，如果自己在山坡上遇难，希望能被留在原地。
但齐林坚定地认为，救援行动是必要的，因为这样能让逝者与亲人团聚。
“我的观点是，我们必须将他们带回家，”他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
阿尔沙德·R·扎加尔对本文亦有贡献。
India eyes “high risk” Mount Everest mission to recover frozen body of climber “Green Boots” after 30 years
June 23, 2026 / 8:49 AM EDT / CBS News
By Simon Ellery
Indian authorities are hoping to launch an operation to recover the frozen body of a climber who died on Mount Everest nearly 30 years ago in one of the deadliest disasters ever seen on the world’s highest peak.
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.
A tender document says the contracted team must bring the body to Delhi by October.
It would be one of the most technically demanding recovery operations ever attempted on Everest — “double the danger of normal climbing,” according to Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa, the founder of Nepal-based Everest Sherpa Expedition.
“For the whole rescue team this is high risk,” Sherpa told CBS News.
Tshiring has reached Everest’s summit multiple times, and he led expeditions in 2024 to recover five bodies from various mountains in the region. He told CBS News it could take a highly trained, 10-person team up to a week to recover Green Boots’ body.
He added that, in his opinion, it would be impossible to even attempt the operation until the spring due to the weather conditions, which raises questions about the Indian authority’s June-October timeframe noted in the tender document.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police did not reply to CBS News’ request for comment on the plans.
Who is Green Boots?
The body of Green Boots — a nickname derived from the deceased climber’s bright green footwear — has been one of Everest’s most recognizable features for decades. Located at an altitude of about 27,000 feet, Tshiring said the remains have become a grim waypoint for climbers ascending from the Tibetan side of the iconic mountain.
Tents are seen at the base camp on the north slope of Mount Qomolangma (Mount Everest) on May 9, 2021 in Shigatse, Tibet. Ran Wenjuan/China News Service/Getty
“When they communicate with the basecamp and other climbers, they say, ‘Okay, we are now very close to the Green Boots,’” he told CBS News.
The area is within Everest’s “death zone,” above 26,200 feet, where oxygen levels are too low to sustain human life for long, making even basic tasks hazardous.
Green Boots was long widely believed to be 28-year-old Tsewang Paljor, an Indo-Tibetan Border Police member who was among a group that attempted to summit Everest on May 10, 1996, when they were hit by a sudden storm near the peak that was chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s book “Into Thin Air.”
Three climbers from the group continued the ascent despite the worsening conditions, and none returned. Green Boots is the only one of the three whose remains have been found.
The tender documents showed, however, the body in question being identified as Indian soldier Dorje Morup, who was one of Paljor’s fellow climbers. The Guardian newspaper of Britain and the French news agency AFP said they had seen documents showing DNA testing confirmed the remains were Morup’s.
“We must bring them down”
One of the best-known cases of remains being recovered from Everest involves Francys Arsentiev, a mountaineer who died during her descent in 1998 after becoming the first American woman to summit the mountain without supplemental oxygen.
Her body remained on the mountain for years, visible to climbers along a main route. She became known as Everest’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
In 2007, a team led by Sherpas and other climbers managed to move her remains out of sight, effectively giving her a burial on the mountain rather than attempting a full recovery.
More than 200 bodies are believed to remain on Mount Everest, many left where the climbers died because recovery is considered too dangerous or expensive.
The issue continues to fuel debate within the global mountaineering community, with some arguing that the dead should be respected and retrieved, while others say the operations required to do so are not worth the risk to living climbers. Some climbers say in advance that they would prefer to be left on the mountain if they die on the slopes.
But Tshiring is adamant that recovery missions are necessary because they bring the deceased back to their loved ones.
“My opinion is we must bring them down,” he told CBS News.
Arshad R. Zargar contributed to this report.
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