On Everest, 11,000 pounds of garbage

KATHMANDU, Nepal.- The authorities of

Nepal

reported today only in a special expedition cleaning up the Mount

Everest

, the highest mountain in the world, has collected 11,000 kilograms of waste and four bodies

A tourism department official, Danduraj Ghimire, said the expedition participants had spent several weeks on the slopes of Everest to collect food packaging, cans, bottles and bottles of water. 39, empty oxygen.

Part of the waste was flown to Kathmandu, where it was delivered today to recyclers at a ceremony that officially ended the cleanup campaign. Authorities have described the mission as successful but added that there is still much to be removed from Everest.

The officials were not able to accurately estimate the amount of waste in the mountains. Most were in fields 2 and 3, where mountaineers can rest on the road from the base camp to the summit at 8,850 meters.

Ghimire said the four bodies had been exposed
The snow melted and they were transferred to base camp and transferred to a hospital in Kathmandu for identification. Mountaineers struggling to survive on the mountain are sometimes unable to take the bodies of their dead comrades.

More than 300 mountaineers have died on Everest since its conquest for the first time in 1953. It is unclear how many bodies are still on the mountain and officials have stated that they have not no criminal record.

Hundreds of mountaineers, their guides and their porters spend weeks on Everest every spring, the best climbing season.

AP Agency