SCP-5140 - EVEREST
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Item #: SCP-5140
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Due to the exorbitant cost and difficulty in safely extracting SCP-5140 instances from Mt. Everest, MTF-Delta-14 "Winter Wonderland" will periodically ascend Everest to bury any SCP-5140 instances in the snow. Campaigns are underway to tighten restrictions for climbing permits for Mt. Everest on both the Nepalese and Tibetan sides.
Description: SCP-5140 refers to a number of frozen corpses scattered across Mt. Everest, located in the Himalayas of Tibet. The number of SCP-5140 instances is unclear, but accepted to be over 100 and below 200 at the time of writing. SCP-5140 instances are ectoentropic; when physically exposed to heat of any form, including body heat, they will absorb it without raising their temperature, which rests at approximately 10°C (50°F). This process usually renders physical contact with SCP-5140 instances fatal. If an individual dies as a result of contact with SCP-5140 instances, their corpse will become another SCP-5140 instance.
ADDENDUM 5140.1: Mission record - November 12th 2015.
Message chain between MTF Delta-14 senior operative Charlie Smith and the Mobile Task Force’s Basecamp during the annual SCP-5140 expedition. All messages written in shorthand, delivered over a Foundation channel reserved for priority traffic.
Message from Smith to Basecamp:
STATUS UPDATE
APPROACHING SUMMIT
ENCNTERED 34 BODIES ACRSS CHINESE ROUTE
BURIED ALL
PROVISIONS STEADY
LIKELY TO REACH SUMMIT TMRW
Response from Basecamp to Smith:
ACKNOWLEDGED
CONTINUE
Message from Smith:
ENCOUNTERING MINOR ANOMALY ON INSTANCES
EXCEPTIONALLY LOW TEMPS RESULT IN MUSCLE CONTRACTION POSTMORTEM
BODIES CURLED UP & FROZEN
HARD TO PRY OPEN B4 BURIAL
MIGHT HAVE TO BURY LIKE THAT
Response from Basecamp:
ACKNOWLEDGED
PERMISSION GRANTED
BURY AS CONVENIENT
Message:
APPROACHING SUMMIT
ABNORMALLY HIGH NUMBERS OF INSTANCES
ENCOUNTERED 19 SINCE YESTERDAY
OLD INSTANCES GETTING UNBURIED?
Response:
LIKELY
STRONG WINDS BLOWING OFF SNOW
BURY DEEPER IF POSSIBLE
Message:
APPROACHED HILLARY STEP THIS MORNING
WILL ASCEND TO SUMMIT IN HOUR OR TWO
14 MORE BODIES SINCE LAST CONTACT
TEAM UNNERVED
Response:
UNDERSTANDABLE
ALMOST THERE NOW
Message:
DISCOVERED LONE BODY ON SUMMIT
ATTEMPTED TO BURY
SHOVEL HIT SOMETHING, IS STUCK
CAN'T PULL IT OUT
TURNED AROUND
BODY WAS GONE
FELL OFF THE SUMMIT?
DON'T KNOW
TEAM IS RATTLED
PLZ ADVISE
Response:
ACKNOWLEDGED
SENDING OUT SURVEY TEAMS
ATTEMPTING TO SEE IF SOMETHING WAS SEEN FALLING FROM SUMMIT
USE SPARE SHOVEL IF MORE BODIES ENCOUNTERED
ORDERS ARE TO DESCEND FROM CHINESE ROUTE USING ALREADY CLEARED PATH
GODSPEED
Message:
DESCENDED STEP
PATRICK TOUCHED ONE
ME N ARNOLD BURIED HIM
Response:
ACKNOWLEDGED
Message:
EMERGENCY
ATTEMPTED TO DESCEND CHINESE ROUTE
DISCOVERED CAMP REMAINS TORN APART
THREE INSTANCES CURLED UP IN TENT
INSTANCES MOVING???
HURRIED DESCENT
Response:
ACKNOWLEDGED
GET DOWN SAFELY
WILL MOVE FORWARD FROM THERE
PERSONNEL READY TO RECEIVE YOU AT CAMP V
STAY SAFE
Message:
MASS OF THEM BLOCKING THE PATH
ONE REACHED OUT FROM GROUND
GRABBED ARNOLD
HE'S ONE OF THEM
I RAN BACK UP
CAN'T GO DOWN
CAN'T GO BACK UP
ARNOLD WAS CARRYING PROVISIONS
ONLY HAVE ONE CAN OF OXYGEN LEFT
HELP
Response:
ATTEMPT TO USE FLARE GUN TO CLEAR PATH
STAY AT SAFE DISTANCE
TEAM IS ALREADY EN ROUTE TO EXTRACT YOU
STAY CALM, MINIMIZE BREATHING
Message:
THEYRE MOVING
DNT COME TO TH SUMMIT
ITS NOT SAFE
TH GROUND ISNT SAFE
DONT LET CLIMBERS ON EVERST
THE MOUNTAN IS DANGER
Response:
TEAM IS ARRIVING IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS
HOLD STEADY
(No further messages received.)
A rescue detachment of MTF Delta-14 arrived at Charlie Smith's GPS tracker an hour and thirty-six minutes later. They sighted no unburied SCP-5140 instances on their approach. Smith's body was discovered, lacking the signs typical of a SCP-5140 instance. Autopsy indicates he died from exposure and suffocation due to inadequate oxygen intake. Further investigation indicated his oxygen intake valve was damaged during the ascent to the summit. Bodies of Arnold Tenzing and Patrick Edmund were discovered higher up Everest. Tenzing died from exposure, while Edmund was found to be an SCP-5140 instance.
It is currently believed that Smith's inadequate oxygen led to him hallucinating SCP-5140 instances blocking their path and destroying their campsite. Tenzing's foot was found wedged into a rockfall, likely the source of his immobility.
This incident has been taken into account and supply manifests for future expeditions adjusting accordingly.
Addendum 5401.2: File update - 4.25.2024
EVENT REPORT
Location: Mt. Everest, Nepal
Status: Concluded
Time: 01:49 PM (local time) April 25 2024
Event Summary: Increased global temperatures have resulted in significant thawing of ice sheets and snow drifts on Everest. Such thawing caused a large avalanche at 01:49 local time which moved a large amount of snow off the summit. Lower depth of snow allowed scanning planes to identify significant amount of SCP-5140 instances below the snow. Further excavation revealed SCP-5140 instances form a significant portion of Everest itself.
Currently, it is estimated 45% of Mt. Everest's mass is formed by corpses.
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