Rainbow Valley facts

While investigating facts about Rainbow Valley, I found out little known, but curios details like:

There is a part of Mount Everest known as the Rainbow Valley. It is named not because there are rainbows there, but because of the brightly-colored jackets on the frozen corpses that litter the valley.

There is a section visible to those who climb Mount Everest titled "Rainbow Valley", so named for the many colorful parkas of other (dead) climbers that dot the landscape. [Note: graphic PICS may be]

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 9 of the best facts about Rainbow Valley I managed to collect.

1. There's an area on Mt. Everest called “Rainbow Valley”, named for the multicolored down jackets and climbing gear attached to the numerous corpses littered along the hillside.

2. Lucy Maud Montgomery's first book Anne of Green Gables was published in 1908. She wrote and published several more titles in this series including Anne of Avonlea (1909), Anne of the Island (1915), Anne of Windy Poplars (1936), Anne's House of Dreams (1917), Anne of Ingleside (1939), Rainbow Valley (1919), and Rilla of Ingleside (1921).

3. Fish that can be found in the waters of Kobuk Valley National Park include Arctic grayling, lake trout, Arctic char, sockeye salmon, pink salmon, chum, Chinook, Dolly Varden, rainbow smelt, pond smelt, humpback whitefish, Arctic lamprey, and burbot.

4. Below the summit of Everest there is an area known as "rainbow valley", filled with dead bodies still wearing brightly coloured winter gear.

5. About Rainbow Valley on Mt Everest, aptly named for the roughly 200 mummified bodies of fallen climbers' brightly colored jackets. They remain there because the conditions are too harsh to retrieve them. Climbers are forced to pass this part on their way up and down the mountain.

6. About the "Rainbow Valley" in the death zone along the Northeast Ridge Route of Mount Everest, so called due to the bright and colorful clothing of the mountaineers who died there.

7. About Rainbow Valley, the summit to the mount Everest, where bodies of prerished climbers lie as the altitude is often too high to retrieve many of the bodies.