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Deliverance From 27,000 Feet

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Two mountain climbers died near the top of Mount Everest in 2016. Their bodies lay frozen there for a year. Then a journey began to bring them home.

In 2016, three Indian climbers died trying to summit Mount Everest. Two of them were abandoned near the top. This is the story of the quest, a year later, to find them and bring them home. Deliverance From 27,000 Feet By John Branch dec. 19, 2017 Dawa Finjhok Sherpa/Seven Summit Treks, for The New York Times --> Dawa Finjhok Sherpa/Seven Summit Treks, for The New York Times Five Sherpas surrounded the frozen corpse. They swung axes at the body’s edges, trying to pry it from its icy tomb. They knocked chunks of snow from the body, and the shattered pieces skittered down the mountain. Whe

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