Finding on Everest: by cleaning the trash, they found four dead bodies – 03/05/2019

Everest, the highest mountain in the world, has been transformed over the years into a mountain of important wastebut a team of 14 volunteers carries out during these weeks a cleaning operation that has already removed three tons of garbage and hopes to get seven more in the next 45 days.

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

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Apart from the "obvious" waste (cans, bottles, pieces of plastic in general, mountaineering objects and human excrement), at the end of the most dramatic discovery to date are the body 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 trying to reach the summit of Everest, which, by the way, is the largest mountain in the world. planet, whose summit 8,848 meters.

As stated by AFP, the intention is 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.

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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, ie: 185,000 euros. However (reported by ABC), the Everest Climbers Association believes that the environmental situation of the mountain is much worse because I would have deposited about 30 tons of waste.

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