India’s paramilitary force ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) is planning a recovery mission to retrieve the body of an Indian mountaineer nicknamed “Green Boots,” who died during the 1996 Everest expedition. Multiple reports say the body has remained on the mountain for around three decades and is located in the “death zone” above 8,000 metres, a region where oxygen levels and conditions make survival and rescue operations particularly difficult.
NDTV reports that ITBP is seeking a specialist agency to carry out the retrieval. Other outlets linking the same story describe plans to bring the mountaineer’s remains back to India and frame the body as a well-known landmark on Everest. Separate summaries that circulate via search results also mention related administrative steps, such as tendering or contracting arrangements for the operation.
The reporting collectively focuses on the planned logistics and the effort to recover remains after 30 years, but does not provide additional details on timing, route, or whether similar Everest recovery missions have been scheduled alongside this effort.
