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Secrets Behind Mount Everest
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A total of 3,000 kilograms of solid
waste has been collected from Mt. Everest sincewhen Nepal launched an ambitious
clean-up campaign on April 14. The campaign is aimed at bringing back tonnes of
trash from the world’s highest peak, which has lately turned into a “garbage
dump”.
The 45-day ‘Everest Cleaning
Campaign’, led by Solukhumbu district’s Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality
began on April 14 with the Nepali new year and aims to collect nearly 10,000 kgs
of garbage from Mt. Everest.
Dandu Raj Ghimire, Director General of
Department of Tourism, addressed a press conference on Sunday, saying that of
the 3,000-kilogramme garbage collected so far, 2,000 kgs had been sent to
Okhaldhunga while the remaining 1,000 kgs were brought to Kathmandu using
Nepali Army helicopters for disposal.
“Our team has now reached the Everest
Base Camp for the cleaning campaign. All the necessary things including food,
water and shelter have already been arranged there,” Mr. Ghimire was quoted as
saying by The Himalayan Times.
“Under this campaign we will be
collecting around 5,000-kg of garbage from Base Camp area, while 2,000-kg of
garbage will be collected from the South Col region and around 3,000-kg will be
collected from Camp II and Camp III area,” he said.
Mr. Ghimire said the team will also
bring down dead bodies from the Everest if they are able to locate any.
This is the first time ever that all
stakeholders have come together to clean up the world’s highest peak, Mr.
Ghimire said.
The team has located four bodies while
cleaning the Base Camp.
Mr. Ghimire said the Tourism
Department estimates that around 23 million Nepalese rupees will be spent for the
campaign.
The department has estimated that at
least 500 foreign climbers and over 1,000 climbing support staff will visit the
higher camps of Mt. Everest this season as they prepare to scale the world’s
highest peak as well as Mt Lhotse, the fourth tallest mountain, the report
said.
Every year, hundreds of climbers,
Sherpas and high altitude porters make their way to Everest, leaving behind
tonnes of both biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste — including empty
oxygen canisters, kitchen waste, beer bottles and faecal matter — on the
highest peak, which has lately acquired notoriety as the “world’s highest
garbage dump”.
“Our goal is to extract as much waste
as possible from Everest so as to restore glory to the mountain. Everest is not
just the crown of the world, but our pride,” Mr. Ghimire told reporters in
Kathmandu.
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 8kgs of garbage
— the amount of trash estimated to be produced by one climber.
“If only climbers brought back their
own waste, it would greatly help keep Everest clean. It’s not about the 8-kg
waste, but bringing back the waste they produce,” Mr. Ghimire was quoted as
saying by The Kathmandu Post.
“Everything on Everest, other than
rock and snow, will be brought back. The goal is to send the message that we
should keep this mountain pollution free,” said Tika Ram Gurung, secretary of
the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
The month-and-a-half clean-up campaign
is supported by a number of governmental and non-governmental agencies.
The campaign will conclude on May 29,
the day marked every year to commemorate the first summit of Everest by Edmund
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
The collected waste will then be
“showcased” in Namche town, before being ferried down to Kathmandu, where it
will once again be showcased on World Environment Day on June 5.
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