Sleeping Beauty: The Dead Body of Francys Arsentiev on Everest
They called her the Sleeping Beauty of Mount Everest. She lay on her back, one arm outflung, with her head pillowed on the eternal snow. Her face, now waxy in death, seemed so perfect that the new name suited her well. Francys Arsentiev reached the summit without oxygen on 22nd May 1998 in company with … Read more