Rainbow Valley in Everest and dead bodies

Everest is a Magic and while the views of Everest have definitely been proven to be magical, among many other things, the journey to Everest is not so easy. Climbing Everest is the most exciting, and also the most dangerous freaking adventure in the world. And everyone who is excited about Everest is well aware of the risk of being dead. Ending your life on some snowy mountain, far away from home far away from all the house and family and friends is scary. Yet the three of Everest see hundreds of faces each day. In fact, in the top trekking season, the climbing route is so crowded that there is almost a traffic jam of people. And the base camp is also filled with all-yellow tents.

Between the thrill of climbing Everest and being dead here, there have been many new world records and also some very sad deaths within Everest police. Rainbow Valley, also called the deadliest point of Everest has many such stories hidden within the dead bodies. Let us uncover all those stories about waste in this article. 

What is Rainbow Valley in Everest?

Right below the summit of Everest, is a steep cliff where a lot of climbers on the way to Camp IV have been slipped to dead. Rainbow Valley is the name given to the Death Zone of Sagarmatha which has the highest health rate in all areas. Although the name suggests that rainbow valley must be something amazing, it’s filled with many unsuccessful climbs and their dead body. The name comes from the red, blue, green, and orange jackets as well as their belongings as bottles and tents. And as the extreme cold of Everest doesn’t let these bodies decay ever, they remain as fresh as it was when they died. 

Although there’s no exact data so far, almost 200 among 300 deaths in Everest have been within Rainbow Valley. Shortage of oxygen and a difficult path here at a dead point make it the tourist hard to cross this section. The recent crowd of people climbing Everest had made it harder to get to the top. 

How many people have died on Everest?

To this date, around 322 people are said to have lost their lives on Everest. Each year, 4 to 5 total climbers die as an unknown hero of Everest. In 2014, 16 climbs lost their lives in avalanches. The 2015, when the earthquake hit Nepal during the peak climbing season, 19 people with dead at a one. Around 1000 climbers try to climb Everest each year, so the date rate is calculated to be around 0.4%. But that’s a big number when there’s a risk of losing your life. 

Some well-known deaths in the Rainbow Valley

Sleeping beauty 

Francis Arsentiev an American climber must be the most popular name among Americans when it comes to the Everest trek. Francys Arsentiev trial joke on where Mount Everest with her husband in May 1998. Francys Arsentiev tried to climb Mount Everest without oxygen and she did successfully make it to the summit. Unfortunately, the death occurred when she was climbing down from the average top in a place called Rainbow Valley or Death Zone. She got her name Sleeping beauty from future climbers who saw a beautiful woman sleeping peacefully in the Everest death zone. The body remained in a cold for almost ten years before a big operation was organized to remove the body from the top. 

Green boots Everest 

Rested at a stone cave of around 8,500 meters, a man in green boots was used as a grim landmark for climbers. Thus the unidentified body of either Tsewang Paljor or Dorje Morup was removed from the landmark by the Chinese in the year 2014. Although we are not sure what happened to the body, it’s not in the previous place anymore.