 Item No. SCP-5140 Level 4 Secret Containment Class Keter Disruption Class Ecchi Risk Class Critical Special Containment Procedures Due to the exorbitant cost and difficulty in safely extracting SCP-5140 instances from Mount 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 from Mount Everest on both the Nepalese and Tibetan sides. Description SCP-5140 refers to a number of frozen corpses scattered across Mount 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 ecto-entropic, 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 or 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 12-12-2015 Status Update Approaching Summit Encounter 34 bodies across Chinese route Buried all Provision study Likely to reach summit tomorrow Acknowledged Continue Encountering minor anomaly in instances Exceptionally low temperatures result in muscle contraction post-mortem. Bodies curled up and frozen. Hard to pry open before burial. Might have to bury it like that. Acknowledged Permission granted Buried as convenient Approaching Summit Abnormally high numbers of instances Encounter 19 since yesterday Old instances getting unburied? Likely. Strong winds blowing off snow. Very deeper if possible. Approached Hillary's step this morning. Will ascend the summit an hour or two. Four team or body since last contact. Team unnerved. Understandable. Almost there now. Discovered lone body on summit. Attempted to bury. Shovel hit something. It's stuck. Can't pull it out. Turned around. Body was gone. Fell out the summit? Don't know. Team has rattled. Advised. Acknowledged. Sending out survey teams. Attempted to see if something was seen falling from summit. Used spare shovel if more bodies encountered. Orders are to descend from Chinese route using already cleared path. Godspeed. Descended step. Patrick touched one. He and Arnold buried him. Acknowledged. Emergency. Attempted to descend Chinese route. God can't remains toward a part. Three instances curled up in tent. Instances moving? Hurry to scent. Acknowledged. Get down safely. Will move forward from there. Personnel ready to receive you at Camp V. Stay safe. Massive 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. We have one can of oxygen left. Help. Attempt to use flare gun to clear path. Stay at safe distance. Team is already en route to extract you. Stay calm. Minimize breathing. They're moving. Don't come to the summit. It's not safe. The ground isn't safe. Don't let climbers on Everest. The mountain is danger. Team is arriving in less than two hours. Hold steady. 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 science typical of an SCP-5140 instance. Autopsy indicates he died from exposure and suffocation due to inadequate oxygen intake. Further investigation indicates oxygen intake valve was damaged during the ascent to the summit. Bodies of Arnold Hillary and Patrick Edmond were discovered higher up Everest. Hillary died from exposure, while Edmond 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. Hillary's foot was found wedged into a rock ball, likely the source of his immobility. This incident has been taken into account in supply manifests for future expeditions adjusting accordingly. Addendum 5140.2 File Update April 25, 2024 Event Report Location Mount Everest, Nepal Status Concluded Time 1.49pm Local Time April 25, 2024 Disruption Class Connect Increased global temperatures have resulted in significant thawing of ice sheets and snow drifts on Everest. Such thawing caused a large avalanche at 1149 local time, which moved a large amount of snow off the summit. Lower depth of snow allowed scanning planes to identify a 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 Mount Everest's mass is formed by corpses.