MOUNT EVEREST’S CHILLING COLD CASE: What Really Happened to ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Francys Arsentiev?
On May 24, 1998, Francys Arsentiev, the first American woman to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, met a tragic end during her descent, earning the haunting moniker “Sleeping Beauty” as her body lay preserved on the mountain’s slopes for nearly a decade. The story, reignited by a 2025 documentary trailer that garnered 3.1 million…