Due to the expense and difficulty of retrieving bodies from Everest, around 200 bodies still ... who both perished in 1996. Sleeping Beauty is Francys Arsentiev, who died in 1998.

Dead bodies are a common sight on top of Mount Everest. "I cannot believe what I saw up there," Everest filmmaker Elia Saikaly wrote on Instagram last week. "Death. Carnage. Chaos. Lineups.

The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year's climbing season. Ang Babu Sherpa, who led the ...