Nepalese team cleans up Everest
A team of Nepalese mountaineers has collected the largest ever amount of garbage left by Everest climbers in a six-week clean-up expedition.
Some 29 climbers, including a number of top summiteers removed 1,800 kilograms of oxygen cylinders, tents, ropes, climbing equipment and helicopter parts during the annual Everest clean-up campaign which was launched in 2008.
This year’s clean up lasted around two months due to bad weather and fresh snow that covered the garbage at an altitude of 8,000 meters.
"Nineteen of us worked above the Everest Base Camp for seven hours or more to bring down the garbage every day," said team leader Pasang Sherpa.
After the world’s highest peak was cleaned up, 75 yaks and 65 porters transported the garbage from the base camp to a village in Nepal, AP reported.
Since the mount was first conquered in 1953, more than 5,000 people have climbed Everest and as they left much waste along the way, experts estimate that another 50 tons of waste still remains on the mountain slopes.
They also believe that there are dozens of corpses belonging to mountaineers in the so-called 'Death Zone.' Since 1953, 250 mountaineers have died climbing Everest.
Source: presstv.ir
