Nepal in Everest's garbage collection campaign …

Nepal has decided in recent hours to cope with the cleaning duties on Mount Everest. The highest mountain in the world is also, with its 8848 meters, the highest dumpster on the planet. There were already restrictions on the entry of tourists into the base camp, but that was not enough to reduce pollution rates. And that's last spring, we picked up about eight tons of waste.

The situation is so extreme that several agencies have had to join forces: the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, the Ministry of the Environment, the Nepalese Army, the Ministry of the Environment, Nepal Mountaineering Association, the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, the Rural Municipality of Khumbu Pasang Lhamu and the Nepal Tourism Board.

At the end of 2018, the Chinese government restricted access to 300 mountaineers per year and prohibited camping in the base camp accessible by car. It is a more accessible camp than the Nepali side, which is reached after two weeks of walking. In 2014, regulations were put in place to fight against pollution, in an area where up to 40,000 people pbad each year. For example, mountaineers were asked to take their own garbage, but this was not done.

Now he's trying to collect thousands of pounds. The surface of Everest is full of oxygen bottles, cans, ladders and tents left by mountaineers. To this are added the bodies of mountaineers who lost their lives in their attempt to crown the summit and who were covered with snow. It is estimated that about 300 bodies are buried under ice.

Another residue that abounds in Everest are the feces. A Chinese company has proposed to install ecological toilets, an idea that has not yet flourished. At the moment, garbage collection is not an easy task due to the orography and the level difference. Next month, tasks will begin in the South Coll, at 7,900 meters, and Camp II at 6,500 meters, the most affected by the pollution.

It is estimated that the tasks will cost about 30 million rupees, or 250,000 euros. The work will be carried out by groups of groups of at least five sherpas, the inhabitants of the area. It's a Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, who reached the summit of Everest for the first time, along with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, in 1953.