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  • Come on my show.

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  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 mysterious and creepy events on Mount Everest.

  • Welcome to the Himalayas.

  • Close a tent.

  • Now it's Friesen.

  • Are you being sarcastic?

  • Dude, I don't even know anymore.

  • For this list will be looking at some eerie, unexplained and generally unsettling events that have occurred on the slopes of Mount Everest.

  • Would you be willing to climb the mountain after all this?

  • Be sure to let us know in the comments.

  • Number 10.

  • The Tale of Maurice Wilson In 1932 military man Maurice Wilson discovered a love for prayer and fasting after he was cured.

  • Oven illness.

  • Two years later, wanting to prove his convictions to the world, Wilson decided to climb Everest despite a significant lack of mountaineering experience.

  • He thought that by scaling Everest when prior professionals had failed, he would demonstrate the power of faith to do anything.

  • He actually made it to almost 23,000 ft before his progress was hampered by a 40 ft ice wall.

  • The accompanying Sherpas told him to give up, but Wilson refused to listen.

  • He admitted in his diary.

  • This will be a last effort and pushed on.

  • He died of exhaustion just a few days later in his tent.

  • Peter, you left the flap open like 1000 degrees in here.

  • Lois, close the tent.

  • Now it's frozen.

  • Number nine.

  • Sleeping Beauty.

  • Everest is kind of terrifying, not only because it's so dangerous, but because it's littered with hundreds of frozen corpses.

  • Oh my God, Dad, it's okay.

  • There's a huge pile of dead bodies down here that cushioned my fault.

  • Taking a body down is expensive and dangerous, so most are simply left on the mountain as frozen mummies.

  • One of the most famous bodies is sleeping Beauty.

  • Oh, I'll never forgive myself.

  • We're all to blame.

  • Riel Name Francis are sent.

  • Iev.

  • This Hawaiian woman was the first female to scale Mount Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen.

  • However, she became exhausted from oxygen deprivation and collapsed on the descent.

  • She twice encountered fellow climbers, and while both teams attempted to rescue, they were ultimately forced to leave her behind to save themselves.

  • Are senti have froze to death and her purple jacketed corpse became known as Sleeping Beauty.

  • Number eight an astronaut's last dissent in 1993 astronauts and Northwestern University professor Carl Gordon.

  • Hen eyes scaled Everest to test the device, called the tissue equivalent proportional counter or T E P C.

  • For short.

  • This counter measured the effects of radiation on the human body.

  • Hannah's plan to use the counter at three different altitudes.

  • 17,000, 19,000 and 21,000 ft.

  • He scaled the mountain with a research group called High Adventure BV I but began to suffer significant breathing problems at 22,000 ft.

  • The team attempted to save him with oxygen, but they failed and Eyes died in his sleep from high altitude pulmonary oedema and was buried on the mountain number seven.

  • The vanishing snowboarder.

  • In 2001, Marcos Afridi did the impossible.

  • He rode down Everest on a snowboard.

  • His adventure began at this summit, and he rode down to advanced base camp at North Pole.

  • He then rode down the Norton Couloir for two hours, wanting an even bigger accomplishment to his name.

  • See, Freddie decided to descend.

  • The more challenging horn bein cool are the following year.

  • If successful, he would become the first person in the world to do so.

  • The Sherpas urged secret not to go as he was exhausted from the climb and the weather had changed.

  • He went anyway and was never seen again.

  • The Sherpas reported.

  • Seeing no snowboard tracks and see Freddy's body has never been found.

  • Number six, the maybe Russian expedition of 1952.

  • Did the Russians attempt to scale Everest in 1952?

  • It's possible.

  • So you're telling me there's a chance.

  • Yeah.

  • It's said that a team of Russian climbers led by one Dr Pavel that Shin Olean set off in October of 1952 to scale the mountain.

  • But their expedition was a disaster, resulting in six deaths.

  • This trip has been documented in some supposedly reputable sources, including The Manchester Guardian, the Tribune de Geneve, the Alpine Journal and Walt Unsworth Book Everest.

  • The Mountaineering History.

  • However, Russia has consistently denied that the expedition took place, and there has been no physical evidence to support the theory.

  • Did some wires get crossed in the reporting?

  • Was this some super secret mission?

  • No one seems to know.

  • I'll tell you something you don't want to know, and I don't know Number five Mallory and Irvine.

  • On the morning of June the sixth, Odell took this picture of Mallory and Irving, leaving Camp four on the North Pole.

  • It's the last picture ever taken of from the 1924 British Everest expedition is often debated.

  • This expedition saw George Mallory and Sandy Irvine attempting to become the first people to summit Everest.

  • They disappeared while climbing the mountain and weren't seen for another 75 years.

  • It wasn't until 1999 that Mallory's body was finally discovered by a research expedition completely frozen and mummified.

  • I looked over to my right and all of a sudden I saw patch of white that wasn't rock and it wasn't snow.

  • And all of a sudden I'm gonna go look over here.

  • And as I started traversing closer to this, I saw well appeared to be the lower part of the leg.

  • It was found that the significant rope jerk injury around the waist, a broken leg and a wound in his forehead Irvine has never been found, and whether or not they were successful in their resent remains unknown, he was determined when he was tough and he was strong and I think I think he made it.

  • I think I think he and ermine both made it.

  • Number four mountain ghosts.

  • I see dead people.

  • As previously mentioned, Everest plays host to many frozen bodies.

  • But is it also the home of their ghosts?

  • If Sherpa Pemba door, he is to be believed, then yes, door.

  • He claims to have ascended Everest in just eight hours, a record that was confirmed by the Tourism Ministry of Nepal but rejected by the Guinness Book of World Records.

  • While climbing the mountain door, he claims to have seen numerous ghostly, shadowy figures approaching him with their arms outstretched, a gestures said to be indicative of their starvation in life.

  • In fact, many Sherpas Air said to believe in the mountains ghosts.

  • However, it's also possible that the ghosts are mere hallucinations caused by the high altitude.

  • It's not a matter that concerns you, Mr Tolerance Attn.

  • Least not at this point.

  • Anything you say, Lloyd.

  • Anything you say.

  • Number three Mysterious deaths in 2017, the world was hit with conflicting reports regarding some supposed deaths on Everest.

  • Sherpas had found the bodies of four climbers and a tent on the mountain.

  • They reported this news to The Associated Press and Reuters, and the report was published in numerous mainstream outlets.

  • However, none of the expeditions climbing Everest at the time had reported anyone missing.

  • Nepal's tourism department also cast doubt on the report, saying that dozens of climbers would have also seen the tent and bodies.

  • Yet no one had reported seeing anything.

  • Was this another instance of Everest ghosts where the Sherpas mistaken once again?

  • No one seems to know.

  • Are you being sarcastic?

  • Dude, I don't even know anymore number to the wild man of the Snow's Welcome to the Himalayas.

  • Does the yeti reside on Mount Everest?

  • While there have been numerous personal and eyewitness accounts in Charles Howard Berry's book Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance 1921 he reports seeing large footsteps in the snow, his Sherpa guides said they belonged to the wild man of the Snows.

  • There's no doubt about it.

  • There was something else here to perhaps the most thrilling supporting evidence.

  • Our photographs from mountaineer Eric Shipton.

  • They show large footprints in the snow and sparked widespread national interest in the yeti.

  • Even to this day, the photos remain fiercely debated, with some declaring them the best existing evidence of the yeti.

  • Nowadays they be cries of hoax.

  • But back in the 19 fifties, respectable adventurers were taken at their word.

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  • Number one Frank Smyth sees something.

  • Frank Smith was an experienced English mountaineer in 1931 he said a summit record by successfully scaling India's commit, he later embarked on three Everest expeditions throughout the thirties.

  • The first rattled Smith to his core in his book, Camp six, The 1933 Everest Expedition, Smith reports feeling a presence beside him as he scaled the mountain, believing this presence to be really, he took a mint cake from his belongings and attempted to share it.

  • Did you ever have the feeling you're being watched and the eyes of strange, eerie things are upon you.

  • He also reported seeing two curious objects floating in the sky that resembled kite balloons.

  • They supposedly hovered and seemed to pulsate.

  • These could be hallucinations stemming from oxygen deprivation.

  • Or they could be ghosts or aliens.

  • Extra terrestrial life.

  • You're right, Jerry.

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