For Decades, Mountaineers Have Encountered Ghosts And Supernatural Experiences On Mount Everest

As daunting and treacherous it is, Mount Everest remains like a banshee in the ocean beckoning and challenging climbers to test themselves against the might of the world’s highest mountain. The dangers, risks, and pitfalls of challenging Everest are well known by every mountaineer, but in that lies the excitement and sense of adventure in tackling the mountain that has killed many who still remain frozen mummies in the snow. The bodies lying on Everest are grim landmarks enroute to the top. Yet to submit its peak is perhaps akin to stepping foot on the moon.

1The mysteries of Mount Everest

But what is even more mysterious about Everest is the ghost sightings revealed by mountaineers themselves who swear that they have seen strange things on Everest. With several lives having died in the most tragic circumstances no wonder, Everest is plagued with ghosts and spirits because up there you don’t just die instantly, you are left to die” and this is one subject that mountaineers are debating today, that the code of the mountain (to abandon ones quest to help others in distress) is a joke where a summit is more important than a life. 

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2The corpse that serves as a mascot and marker for climbers

As pristine and magical Everest may appear when seen from afar, it has a gothic nature of being pure and white but surrounded by death. Mountaineers have all passed by the corpse that lies above Everest called Green boots because of the green color boots worn by the corpse who was once Tsweang Paljor a Sherpa mountaineer. His body serves as a landmark on the main northeast ridge lying in eerie state unburied and a grim landmark for the living who pass by enroute to the summit. What’s highly deplorable is that mountaineers also take selfies next to the corpse, David Sharp a famous mountaineer died from hypothermia just next to green boots. 

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3Unidentified Bodies

Mount Everest is a graveyard of bodies where climbers will see unidentified bodies cropping up everywhere. Not everyone survives the harsh conditions and even while descending if you get caught in a snowstorm or blizzard, then there’s a risk of being stranded and dying from hypothermia. Sadly a summit doesn’t even count if you die in descent. In 2017, four bodies were discovered in a base camp tent but surprisingly no mountaineering agency reported missing climbers.

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4Weird Flying Objects Stalk the Climbers

Frank Smythe was a famous botanist and mountaineer who was credited with the discovery of the valley of flowers. In his memoirs, he wrote that in 1913, when he was descending from a death zone on Everest, he met a man whom he shared a mint cake with him but suddenly saw two ghostly figures one which had wings while another had a beak-like mouth. Both figures hovered above him and then eventually disappeared in the mist. In such a stressful condition, Smythe could have also been suffering from hallucinations which aren’t entirely uncommon. 

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