45,000kg of waste. That’s the concerning amount of rubbish Sherpas believe has been discarded at Mount Everest’s highest camp.
“The garbage left there was mostly old tents, some food packaging and gas cartridges, oxygen bottles, tent packs, and ropes used for climbing and tying up tents,” Sherpa Ang Babu Sherpa said, after leading a clean up team at the South Col camp at 8,000-meter altitude.
He believes to remove all the rubbish it will take years. Most of the rubbish is from older expeditions with new government rules requiring climbers to bring back their waste.
Photos from their recent mission, which retrieved 10,000kg of waste, shows the extent of the problem.
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