Result: D-71902 complained that any food or drink they were given 
tasted "off" while affected. Subject did not state that they hada 
strong preference for either beverage before or after the test. 


Subject: D-44431 

Object: One chocolate bar 

Object flaw: The chocolate bar had been bitten sideways. 
Result: D-44431 refused to consume chocolates or chocolate 
flavored object in any way other than consuming them sideways. 
D-44431 still consumed non-chocolate foodstuffs normally. 


Subject: D-82654 

Object: The testing chamber. 

Object flaw: D-82654 has a mental disorder which causes him to 
believe every room has something "wrong" with it. 

Result: D-82654's mental disorder was not temporarily alleviated, 
as expected. Instead, he began to apply the same specific flaw that 
he saw in the test chamber to every room he was taken in to 
observe. For the record, the specific flaw he noted was the "paint 
being too dry." 


Subject: D-87661 

Object: D-00391, who is an amputee (left arm). 

Object flaw: D-87661 suffers from body integrity identity disorder. 
Result: D-87661 began to report that they felt their left arm had 
been "liberated" from their body. Analysis of D-87661's left arm 
showed a complete lack of sensory input to the brain. D-87661's 
sensory information returned to normal immediately after being 
made unconscious following the test. 


Subject: D-32642 

Object: D-09871 

Object flaw: D-09871 suffers from dwarfism. 

Result: D-32642 had difficulty moving with precision, and reported 
seeing non-structural objects as significantly smaller than they 
actually were. He reported his perceived height to be 3 meters tall, 
and had similar reports for the size of other people. 


Subject: D-28830 

Object: A mirror 

Object flaw: None. Intended as a baseline test. 

Result: D-28830 appears disoriented, exhibits laterally inverted 
movement. Subject further attempts to grasp objects with her 
opposite hand. Reports the entire facility appears "backwards". Of 
particular interest is that, although right-handed, D-28830 was able 
to write with her left hand with no difficulty (albeit inverted). 


Subject: D-56790 


Object: A monitor displaying Java source code written in the 

IDE. 

Object flaw: The name of a core library was misspelled. 

Result: (D-56790 was a programmer.) Subject believed that the 
misspelled name was the correct name. When asked to write code 
D-56790 could not perceive the errors, instead he perceived the 
code as doing what he would expect (bugs did not appear if he 
expected the code to work). When the code was corrected he 
perceived the compiler as giving an error. 


Subject: D-56922 

Object: A piece of venison. 

Object flaw: A bite was taken out of it. 

Result: The venison regenerated the missing piece, then proceeded 
to regenerate the rest of it, forming a fully skinned deer carcass. The 
meat, once cooked, tasted normal. 


SCP-1529: King of the Mountain 


Item #: SCP-1529 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1529's native environment 
is to be kept under telescope and satellite surveillance whenever 
weather and daylight permit. Year-round telescope surveillance is to 
be conducted from the Foundation's permanent monitoring stations 
in , Nepal and , People's Republic of China. As early 
in the year as weather permits, a Foundation front company, South 
Chomolungma Portage, shall establish forward monitoring stations 
at base camp on the northern and southern ascents, and at the 
higher camps as weather permits (with the exception of Camp VI on 
the northern ascent and Camp IV on the southern), to be maintained 
until weather conditions force the evacuation of the mountain for the 
season. When SCP-1529 is active, telescope surveillance will be 
conducted by means of an automatic telescope with a video feed 
playing at seven seconds delay to avoid a repeat of Incident 1529-2. 
When necessary and safe, surveillance shall be conducted by 
airplane or helicopter. 


The Foundation shall liaise with civilian expedition coordinators as 
necessary to prevent attempts on the summit when SCP-1529 is 
active. The bodies of any hikers who encounter SCP-1529 are to be 
removed from the mountain as soon as possible for autopsy and 
disposal. All SCP-1529 related casualties shall be attributed to 
natural causes relating to altitude sickness and hypothermia. Any 
survivors and/or witnesses are to be debriefed and administered a 
Class-B amnestic. 


Mobile Task Force Psi-29029, ("Alpine Echo") shall remain on 
standby at all times at the Foundation monitoring station in 
During tours of duty, all members of the MTF shall remain at all 
times in a pressurized environment acclimatized to 7,900 meters 
above sea level. In the event that a recurrence of Incident 1529-1 


occurs, Alpine Echo shall deploy to the mountain by helicopter and 
attempt Procedure Boukreev. 


Description: SCP-1529 is a humanoid individual residing near the 
summit of Mt. Everest in Nepal, above the 8,000 meter "death zone" 
mark where human acclimatization is believed to be impossible. 
SCP-1529 appears to be of average height and weight and is 
dressed head to toe in what resembles standard mountaineering 
wear and boots, colored white. SCP-1529's face is entirely obscured 
by the hood of its parka and what appears to be an oversized pair of 
opaque black mountain goggles. SCP-1529 has never been 
observed to wear any other clothes. As very few living people have 
observed SCP-1529 except through a telescope, it is not known 
whether its coverings are clothes or part of its body, or what it may 
look like underneath (except as per Interview 1529-1.) 


The Foundation became aware of SCP-1529 in the 1970s when 
annual expeditions to the summit of Mt. Everest became 
commonplace, and rumors began to circulate in the mountaineering 
community about a "monster" near the summit. Photographs found 
undeveloped in George Mallory's! camera after the discovery of his 
remains in 1999 indicate that SCP-1529 was present and active by 
the time of his attempt on the summit, and was not then significantly 
different in appearance than it is today. (Foundation media assets 
have reported that Mallory's camera was never found, and that his 
death was the result of a fall.) 


During periods when daylight is sufficient and cloud cover allows for 
surveillance of the mountain, SCP-1529 is on average observable 

% of the time. For % ofthat time, SCP-1529 is "inactive", and lies 
or sits motionless. Recorded periods of inactivity have extended 
from 17 minutes to (possibly) 8 months; median period of inactivity is 
23.4 days. When "active", SCP-1529 can be observed to climb 
about the upper reaches of the mountain and summit in no 
discernible direction. SCP-1529 has never been observed to use 
any tools or climbing aids other than its hands or feet, and while 
travelling along established climbing routes will ignore the existence 
of guide ropes or ladders that have been installed by previous 
climbers. SCP-1529 has demonstrated an ability to climb or descend 
sections of the mountain's face believed impassable to conventional 


mountaineers, has never been observed to fall or lose its grip, and is 
seemingly unencumbered by sub-zero temperatures, high winds, 
thin air, or low atmospheric pressure. The cause of its becoming 
active or inactive is unknown, and shows no correlation to weather, 
time of day, traffic up the mountain, season, or time of year. 
SCP-1529 has never been observed to descend below the 8,000 
meter mark (except as per Incident 1529-1.) Documented periods of 
activity have extended from 3 hours to (possibly) 6 days; median 
documented period is 15.2 hours. Nighttime observation of 
SCP-1529 has thus far proved impossible. Infrared imaging has 
shown no difference in temperature between SCP-1529 and the 
surrounding mountainside. 


If human climbers ascend past the 8,000 meter mark while 
SCP-1529 is active, it will attempt to make its way towards them and 
interpose itself between them and the summit or camp. SCP-1529 
seems to prefer to target solo climbers or climbers that are 
significantly ahead of or behind the rest of their group, but will target 
individuals within a group if such an opportunity does not present 
itself. Once SCP-1529 is within eyesight of a traveller it will attempt 
to gain his/her attention and cause the traveller to make eye contact 
with it, which induces a hypnotic effect in the victim. The victim finds 
it very difficult to break eye contact with SCP-1529 and will begin to 
feel very warm and comfortable, and enticed to sit down and relax. 
Once the climber has stopped moving, SCP-1529 will close range 
with the climber and [DATA EXPUNGED]. Death from hypothermia 
appears to occur within 1-2 hours of making eye contact with 
SCP-1529, much more quickly than is typical for climbers stuck near 
the summit. After death, SCP-1529's victims experience an 
extremely accelerated state of decay: after several hours or days, 
bodies have become rotted and mummified in levels comparable to 
bodies that have lain exposed on the mountain for several decades. 


Of the approximately 220 people who have died in the high altitudes 
of Everest since 1924, SCP-1529 is believed to have accounted for 
atleast . people have survived encounters with SCP-1529, 
almost all (except as per Interview 1529-1) due to another 
mountaineer assisting the victim before SCP-1529 made physical 
contact. SCP-1529 does not appear to be capable of entrancing 
more than one climber at a time; however, physical encounters 


between SCP-1529 and more than one person have been noted to 
lead to [DATA EXPUNGED]. Purpose and motivation for 
SCP-1529's behavior is unknown; see Interview 1529-1 for 
speculation. 


INCIDENT 1529-1: On / /19 , SCP-1529 entered Camp V on the 
northern approach, at 7,775 meters, and [DATA EXPUNGED]. 
casualties occurred, including both Foundation personnel operating 
the Camp V monitoring post. Foundation assets in the media 
attributed the deaths to a sudden storm and poor planning on the 
part of expedition coordinator , who was among the deceased. 
SCP-1529 had not been under observation at the time due to its 
having entered active phase sometime during the night, and had not 
yet been located on telescope. To date this is the first and only 
documented instance of SCP-1529 travelling below the 8,000 meter 
mark or entering any camp while inhabited. 


INCIDENT 1529-2: On / /20 , Agent in the permanent facility 
in China, engaged in telescope surveillance of SCP-1529 while it 
was active near the summit of the mountain. reported that 
SCP-1529, while facing in the direction of the base, looked directly 
in the direction of the telescope. immediately reported 
symptoms consistent with an SCP-1529 encounter and reported that 
SCP-1529 had begun descending the mountain in the direction of 
the permanent facility. was unable to pull himself away from the 
telescope and had to be manually restrained and sedated 17 
minutes after beginning of encounter, whereupon he was rushed to 
facility sickbay and found to have a core body temperature of 27°C 
and signs of frostbite in the fingers and toes, despite having 
remained indoors at a room temperature of 24 °C for the duration of 
the encounter. Agent _, who attempted to resume surveillance 
after 's illness, found SCP-1529 still descending the mountain 
and encountered similar symptoms. Telescope surveillance was 
discontinued until / , when aerial surveillance confirmed that 
SCP-1529 had ceased to descend and had entered an inactive 
state. 


INTERVIEW LOG 1529-1 


+ Show log 


Interviewed: L , hereafter "L." 
Interviewer: Agent 


Foreword: On / /20 ,L. was reportedly killed during an 
encounter with SCP-1529 when it abruptly became 
active shortly after L. had reached the mountain's 
summit. However, L. was found alive when another team 
reached his position nearly two days later, and was 
removed safely from the mountain. He required fingertip 
and toe amputations due to frostbite, but is otherwise 
making a full recovery. The following is an excerpt from 
L.'s debriefing prior to his discharge from hospital. 


<Begin Log> 


: Tell me about what happened when you 
encountered the creature. 


L.: It can't have been more than ten minutes 
after | left the summit, about 1300. That's the 
hardest part of the climb. You've reached the 
top and you're exhilarated and proud of 
yourself, and then you realize you've just done 
the most difficult thing you've ever done in 
your life - and you have to do it all over again, 
right now, backwards, or you'll end up like 
Green Boots.2 The others were five or six 
meters ahead of me - I'd been delayed a 
moment to adjust my hood. That's when | saw 
it come over the ridge. 


: What was your reaction when you first 
saw it? 


L.: Surprised, to say the least. We hadn't been 
told there was anyone else climbing to the top 
that day. | thought he must have come over 
from the other side, or gotten left behind by his 
mates. | shouted and waved my hands in the 
air to try and get his attention. 


: What happened when you got its 
attention? 


L.:'E looked right at me, and that's when it 
started. | suddenly felt... happy? Relieved? It 
was like right away all the pain and the 
soreness and the chill was gone. | didn't have 
blisters on my feet and | could feel the tip of 
my nose again. It was like | was back in 
kicking up my feet by the fireplace, like | could 
forget all my worries and enjoy a well- 
deserved rest. But... 


: ...But? 


L.: It didn't feel right. Have you ever heard of 
paradoxical undressing? When your body 
starts to cool down, really cool down, your 
blood vessels dilate and you start to feel like 
you're warming up. So you start tearing off 
your clothes because you feel like you're 
burning up and you need to cool off - and the 
next thing anyone knows, you're naked and 
frozen to death curled up in a snow bank. | had 
a mate who went that way in '98. As far as | 
know he's still curled up next to the Hillary 
Step.3 


: So you believed you were imagining it. 


L.: Right. So | tried to shrug it off, but | couldn't 
take my eyes off the man who'd started 
climbing up towards me. And that's when it all 
went to shit. 


: How so? 


L.: Right away all that warmth and comfort was 
gone. Suddenly | felt cold - colder than I'd 
been before. Colder than | had a right to be. | 
couldn't feel my fingers or my face. My lips felt 


cracked and frozen. | tried to breathe and it 
was like my lungs were full of water. My legs 
cramped up and next thing | knew | was down. 
My mates were almost thirty meters off by 
now. | tried to yell to them but all that came out 
was a whisper. | looked up and that man - that 
thing - was still coming. 


: How long did it take for it to reach you? 


L.: An hour? I'm not sure. | couldn't see my 
watch and | don't think | could've made sense 
of it anyway. | managed to get my arms on the 
ground but | couldn't push myself to my feet. It 
was getting to the point that even if | could 
right myself | wouldn't be able to make it back 
to camp before nightfall. | was starting to think 
| wasn't making it off the mountain at all - but 
what worried me more was the man. The 
closer he got to me, | started to feel something 
in the back of my head - something primal, and 
menacing, and above all, hateful. 


: What happened when it reached you? 


L.: It grabbed me by the shoulders and pulled 
me up to face it. | was looking right into those 
goggles, those eyes... 


: Were they goggles or eyes? 


L.: Neither. Both. | don't know. But it was like | 
could see things in them. Not see them, so 
much... more like feel them. Images and 
feelings in the back of my mind. Rage, and joy, 
and... confusion. 


: Confusion? 


L.: | don't think it was used to people resisting 
it. It asked me a question.