Spring cleaning for Mount Everest
The world's highest garbage dump to be cleaned up
-- a little.
A group of Asian and European mountaineers will climb Mount Everest this spring to clean up tons of garbage left on the slopes of the world’s highest mountain…
“We will try to bring down as much as five tons of garbage from the higher camps,” team leader Han Wang-yong of Seoul, South Korea, said in Nepal’s capital, Katmandu.
Climbers say the South Col is littered with tents and other equipment, food packaging, ropes and even the bodies of people who have died in the past but have been preserved by the cold weather.
“We will try to bring down the bodies too but our main goal will be to collect the items like tents, oxygen tanks and plastic wrappings,” Han said.
Although estimates vary, some say there are 50 tons of trash on the Nepalese side of the mountain.
Neatness counts.
Posted: Tue - March 7, 2006 at 09:30 AM