By cleaning the garbage, they found four corpses on Everest

Everest, the highest mountain in the world, has been transformed over the years into a mountain of rubbish, but a team of 14 volunteers is currently carrying out a clean-up operation that has already removed three tonnes of waste and hopes to eliminate others. seven in the next 45 days.

Sagarmatha's clean-up campaign is the name of the ambitious plan undertaken by Nepal's Ministry of Tourism and the local government to clean up the world's largest garbage dump.

Apart from "obvious" waste (cans, bottles, pieces of plastic in general, mountaineering objects and human excrement), there are at the end of the most dramatic discoveries until now the bodies of four mountaineers. And according to the ANSA agency, if climate change continues to dissolve the ice, it is likely that more corpses will appear.

Since 1922, when the Nepalese authorities began to climb, more than 200 mountaineers have died attempting to reach the summit of Everest, incidentally, the largest mountain in the world. planet, whose summit reaches 8 848 meters.

According to AFP, the goal is to recycle as much waste as possible. For this, a local army helicopter was carrying one third of the garbage collected to the city of Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. Other biodegradable wastes were transported to the neighboring district of Okhaldhunga.

Eight team members are currently cleaning camp 2, at 6,400 meters above sea level, and other volunteer groups will be going to camp 4 at 7,950 meters altitude, where they will search for waste between snowy slopes for 15 days.

It is estimated that the total cost of the project (which includes the collection of 10 tons of waste) will cost about 23 million rupees, or 185,000 euros. However (reported by ABC), the Climbers Association of Everest estimates that the environmental situation of the mountain is much worse, since it would have deposited about 30 tons of waste.

Source: Clarín