KATHMANDU - A major new campaign hopes to clean up Mount Everest by collecting and bringing back tonnes of garbage from the world's highest peak.
The campaign will collect and bring back 5,000kg of waste from Everest Base Camp, 2,000kg from South Col, and a combined 3,000kg from Camp I and Camp II, according to Mr Danduraj Ghimire, director general of the Department of Tourism. There have been attempts in the past to clean up Everest, including a 2014 government-mandated provision making it mandatory for every climber to come down the peak with at least 8kg of garbage - the amount of trash estimated to be produced by one climber.
Besides trash, the campaign will also attempt to retrieve dead bodies from Everest. The clean-up campaign has already discovered four bodies of dead climbers on the mountain. Everest is a treacherous mountain and every year, a number of climbers do not make it back. Their bodies are often abandoned on the mountain since bringing them back would pose too great a risk. This has led to the mountain becoming a veritable graveyard.
A 12-member team, which includes Nepal Army personnel, has been deployed for the clean-up campaign. From among the 12, a group of eight sherpas will be based at Camp II with three members taking turns moving towards Camp IV on the South Col, collecting garbage. The team will spend five days at South Col.
The month-and-a-half clean-up campaign is supported by a number of governmental and non-governmental agencies, including the federal Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation; Ministry of Forest and Environment; Nepal Army; provincial Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment; Nepal Mountaineering Association; and Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee. The cost of the campaign is estimated at 23 million rupee .
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