Last year, a group of adventurers with National Geographic were hiking Mount Everest when they saw a human foot sticking out of the ice.

Now, it is not rare to see dead bodies on the mountain.

There's at least 200 of them scattered around Everest, and many of them act as markers for the trails, frozen forever in time where they fell.

But this human foot in particular had been on the mountain

for 100 years and solved a century old mystery. Welcome back to Heart Starts Pounding. I'm your host,

Kayla Moore. And today, it feels so good to be here inside of the Rogue Detecting Society headquarters

and not out on a mountain. Because today, we're going to be talking about of the rogue detecting society headquarters and not out on a mountain.

Because today, we're going to be talking about the bodies that are still stuck on Mount

Everest, who they belong to, and the mystery that was solved when a 100-year-old foot was found.

Just a reminder, if you like true crime cases that read like Gothic horror, mysteries that will keep you up at night, and let me check my notes here, reading about tragedy that happens on a completely optional hiking expedition, you're in the right place because you are just like me.

Wherever you are, make sure you follow along, leave a comment, subscribe, all of that good stuff.

Now, typically, I like to shout out listeners here, but I want to ask you a question today.

Would any of you ever hike Mount Everest?

Or if you have, please let me know, because after reading so much about this, I must hear

from someone in this community about their experience.

I personally would never hike Mount Everest.

I even get anxiety when I look at pictures of the mountain, but I am deeply curious about the

types of people that choose to make this hike. And so today in our episode, I also want to

explore some of the motivations behind why these people do this extremely dangerous and totally optional feet that many of us find

so unappealing. Okay, let's get into it. Mount Everest, located on the China-Napal border, nestled in

the Himalayas, is the tallest mountain in the world above sea level. Coming in at around 29,000 feet

or 8,800 meters, that's right around cruising altitude for a

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