When I was there I remember some vague stories about "green boots" but I didn't know they were still attached to someone! Sheesh.

I went up part way to one of the base camps, but I think the "base camp" is about 16k feet or something. Didn't go that high. lol

We turned around and went back down after walking the first part of it. Jimmy Carter was going up and I was there about two weeks setting up HF equipment, flew back into China and then ran a trip in Chengdu....