Inside Everest’s chilling ‘Rainbow Valley’ home to 200 bodies of doomed climbers who suffered same fate as Andrew Irvine

Sitting astatine an altitude of 26,000ft is simply a multi-colour wonderment that lone fewer person reached and lived to the archer the tale.

Dubbed the "Rainbow Valley", the country nether the bluish ridge of Mt Everest is lined with the colourful jackets of trekkers who person died attempting to acme the mountain.

Other than bodies, determination are colourful array of tents, cans, and oxygen tanks dumped successful the area.

The rainbow coloured graveyard besides known arsenic the "death zone" is simply a grim reminder to anxious upland climbers striving to scope the peak.

While immoderate climbers execute the singular feat, others springiness up and return, and sadly others perish connected the mountain-side, ne'er to beryllium seen again.

More than 5,000 person scaled it since it was archetypal climbed by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay successful 1953.

Recently, the ft thought to beryllium to a British mountaineer who vanished connected Mount Everest 100 years ago has been recovered by documentary makers.

Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine was past seen with George Mallory 800ft from the peak.

Mallory’s assemblage was recovered successful 1999.

The foot, successful a footwear and a sock embroidered “AC Irvine” was discovered little down successful melting crystal connected a glacier beneath the North Face.

National Geographic Explorer Jimmy Chin, who was a subordinate of the ascent team, said: "Sometimes successful life, the top discoveries hap erstwhile you aren't adjacent looking.

"This was a monumental and affectional infinitesimal for america and our full squad connected the ground, and we conscionable anticipation this tin yet bring bid of caput to his relatives and the climbing satellite astatine large."

While the brave mountaineer wasn't recovered successful the agelong dubbed Rainbow Valley, hundreds of different bodies prevarication determination - undiscovered.

The freezing conditions person meant that the bodies of the would-be explorers are everlastingly entombed and preserved connected the mountainside.

The outgo of recovering the assemblage is more than £53,500 and tin often pb to further deaths.

According to alannarnette.com, much than 327 radical person died connected the upland betwixt 1922 and 1923.

The brutal conditions marque the trek adjacent impossible, arsenic bladed oxygen levels, harsh weather and beardown gusts of upwind compound the cramped and constrictive trail.

The precocious altitude is besides a occupation for adjacent the astir experienced climbers, with galore taking other oxygen tanks to combat altitude sickness.

Besides altitude illnesses, different factors, specified arsenic utmost cold, avalanches, falling, and exhaustion, besides effect successful deaths successful Rainbow Valley.

Everest erstwhile claimed nine lives successful 11 days, including Brit climber Robin Haynes Fisher.

Fisher was conscionable 150m from the acme when he became sick successful the mountain's notorious "death zone", known for its debased levels of oxygen.

And three climbers died aft waiting 12 hours to sojourn the summit due to overcrowding.

All of them died of exhaustion connected the mode backmost down the mountain, bringing the decease toll up to 7 successful conscionable 1 week.

‘Green Boots’

Arguably the astir celebrated of the bodies connected Everest was dubbed “Green Boots” by different climbers, aft his distinctive footwear.

Surrounded by oxygen bottles, the huddled man’s frozen assemblage laic for years wherever helium died trying to shelter, successful a stone crevice present known arsenic “Green Boots’ Cave”.

Climbers really had to measurement implicit the unfortunate adventurer’s legs connected their mode to and from the highest – and often stopped to remainder and person a snack successful the cave, alongside the body.

The corpse is wide believed to beryllium to Tsewang Paljor, from India, who died during a blizzard successful 1996.

The assemblage was precocious moved, though the circumstances astir what happened to it stay unclear, with immoderate reports claiming the assemblage was yet buried connected the upland by different climbers.

‘Sleeping Beauty’

The assemblage known arsenic “Sleeping Beauty” is that of American Francys Arsentiev, who died with her hubby Sergei arsenic they tried to standard the upland together.

Francys made it to the apical successful 1998, becoming the archetypal American pistillate to bash truthful without oxygen, but ran into occupation connected the mode down.

The mates became stranded and separated overnight, and Sergei suffered a fatal autumn trying to rescue his wife, who had collapsed.

Climbers Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd came crossed her and gave up their acme bid to enactment with her earlier they were forced to descend for their ain safety.

Woodall yet returned successful 2007 to find the body, wrapper it successful an American emblem and little it from the mountain’s borderline retired of presumption – apt to the aforesaid resting spot arsenic her husband.

David Sharp

David Sharp, 34, From Teesside, was 1 of those to halt and remainder successful Green Boots’ Cave – but tragically died there.

He was recovered huddled successful the cave connected the brink of decease successful 2006, with reports claiming much than 40 others passed him connected their mode to the acme without helping.

The Brit climber had been attempting to ascent the upland unsocial – with nary guide, nary radio and conscionable 2 bottles of oxygen, alternatively than the modular five, according to reports.

He is believed to person achieved his extremity but ran into occupation connected the mode down.

His assemblage was yet removed from the way astatine the petition of his parents.

George Mallory

The assemblage of Brit climber George Mallory was lone discovered successful 1999 – 75 years aft helium disappeared connected the mountain.

Mallory was portion of an ill-fated 1924 expedition to go the archetypal squad to scope the summit.

The intrepid explorer erstwhile declared Everest to beryllium a awesome of “man’s tendency to conquer the Universe” – telling reporters helium wanted to ascent it “because it’s there”.

But helium and climbing spouse Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappeared, with an crystal axe recovered successful the snow the lone hint of them for the champion portion of a century.

Mallory’s assemblage was recovered preserved successful the snowfall by the American mountaineer Conrad Anker successful 1999.

Irvine’s assemblage was ne'er found.

It remains a enigma whether they made it to the summit, which would person made them the archetypal radical to successfully ascent the upland - immoderate 30 years earlier Norgay and Hillary.

Despite the risks, brave trekkers proceed to enactment 1 ft successful beforehand of the different knowing their past measurement could beryllium perchance fatal.