Everest: Bodies of fallen mountain climbers finally recovered from 'death zone'

A clean-up team removed four bodies from the Himalayas in this year's operation.

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The Nepali was working as a guide for a German climber trying to scale the world’s fourth highest mountain in May 2012. The body blocking their path was thought to be Milan Sedlacek, a Czech mountaineer who’d perished just a few days earlier.

Mr Sherpa was curious why the Czech climber had died so close to the top. One of the gloves on the frozen corpse was missing.

“The bare hand might have slipped away from the rope,” the guide says. “He might have been killed after losing his balance and crashing onto the rock.”

The body stayed where it was - and every climber scaling Mount Lhotse thereafter had to step past it.

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