Aconcagua is 6,960 meters above sea level. Due to the conditions, it is considered an extremely important point to climb before climbing Mount Everest. The 1973 expedition arouses much controversy not only because of the death of two team members. The services suspected that a crime had occurred during the climb, as indicated by the condition of the bodies of both victims.
Two members of the expedition did not return. Janet Johnson’s death has raised questions
Eight people went to the top of Aconcagua. Among them was Janet Johnson and NASA engineer John Cooper. During the expedition, the conditions were difficult, so some people gave up. Cooper, Johnson, Bill Zeller and Arnold McMillen went up. When the snowstorm became too severe, Cooper decided not to continue climbing and to descend. The man died on the way. Over time, Janet also began to have problems. She began to feel the effects of altitude sickness and her hands were frostbitten.
Zeller and McMillen told police the woman allegedly told them to leave her. Zeller claimed he returned to the tent with the woman. He fell asleep, and when he got up, Janet was gone. A search party found Cooper’s body. The woman’s body was found two years later. She had no crampons, but her face was crushed and there was a stone on her chest. There was no camera anywhere.
After 50 years, Janet’s camera was found. He was lying under the ice
“” described the story when, in the middle of summer in 2023, two porters emerged from their tents in the Southern Andes and saw a flash. One of them retrieved an object hidden under a layer of ice. It turned out to be a Nikomat camera. The equipment was signed with the name: Janet Johnson. The porters wondered whether the camera belonged to the woman who died in 1973.
The video from the device was processed and 24 photos that Janet had taken along the way were recovered. It turned out that despite altitude sickness and frostbitten hands, Johnson was able to focus the camera, which also raises suspicions about the version presented by the other team members. — The film found in the camera does not solve the mystery. (…) It also does not answer the question of what led to her death, concluded John Branch in the New York Times.
Source: Gazeta
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