The Frozen Waypoint Paradox: Why Hundreds of Climbers Walked Past a Dead Man and Used Him as a GPS
For 30 years, the body known as ‘Green Boots’ served as a human GPS marker on Everest โ a dead climber reduced to a navigation tool for the living. This is The Frozen Waypoint Paradox: a system where survival logic erases identity, and the dead become infrastructure. DNA has finally named him as Dorje Morup. But the mountain still keeps his body.