Hundreds of people successfully scale Mount Everest every year, bringing home tales of conquest and glory. But others never come home off the mountain. Distraught families often beg for the dead to be brought home, for closure, religious reasons, or to avoid their loved one becoming a trail marker for other climbers. The New York Times details the story of four Indian climbers, only one of whom made it back down the mountain alive, and the expedition to get their frozen bodies removed from Everest and brought home. Paresh Nath, 58, was a one-handed tailor who was married and had a young son. Subhas Paul, 44, drove a small-goods truck, and Goutam Ghosh, 50, was a police officer from Kolkata. Forty-two-year-old Sunita Hazra survived. Ghosh, Paul and Nath died in May 2016. A year later, after at least 27 people stepped over Ghosh’s body on their way to the summit and again on their way down before the season ended, Nath and Ghosh’s bodies were returned home.
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