Bringing 'Green Boots' home 30 years after climber died on Everest - BBC News

For decades, an Indian man's lime shoes have been a grim trail marker for many climbing the world's highest peak.

Image source, Family handoutImage caption, Dorje Morup was a keen mountaineer and had climbed many peaks, including Stok Kangri, the highest peak in the Ladakh mountain range

For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.

The lime mountaineering boots worn by an Indian climber who died in 1996 have been a grim trail marker for many climbers on their way up the world's highest peak ever since.

Now India is looking for a specialist high-altitude recovery team to undertake a complex and risky mission to retrieve what they say is Dorje Morup's body – arguably the most famous of the hundreds whose bodies have been left frozen on the mountain.

Warning: This story contains a picture of a dead body.