You have will carry out garbage (and not just your own)
Good. Can't believe all that crap was ever left there to begin with.
A Nepalese man collecting rubbish left by climbers, at an altitude of 8,000 metres during a clean-up expedition at Mount Everest
Climbers wanting to scale Mount Everest will be forced to bring back eight kilograms of rubbish in a bid to clean-up the world's highest peak.
The rule, one of several new measures covering mountaineering in the Himalayan nation, will apply to climbers ascending beyond Everest's base camp from April onwards, said tourism ministry official Madhusudan Burlakoti.
Decades of mountaineering has taken its toll on Everest which is strewn with rubbish from past expeditions, including oxygen cylinders, human waste and even climbers' bodies, which do not decompose in the extreme cold.
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Blazing Cat Fur: Planning to climb Mt Everest from Nepal? You have will carry out garbage (and not just your own)
Good. Can't believe all that crap was ever left there to begin with.
A Nepalese man collecting rubbish left by climbers, at an altitude of 8,000 metres during a clean-up expedition at Mount Everest
Climbers wanting to scale Mount Everest will be forced to bring back eight kilograms of rubbish in a bid to clean-up the world's highest peak.
The rule, one of several new measures covering mountaineering in the Himalayan nation, will apply to climbers ascending beyond Everest's base camp from April onwards, said tourism ministry official Madhusudan Burlakoti.
Decades of mountaineering has taken its toll on Everest which is strewn with rubbish from past expeditions, including oxygen cylinders, human waste and even climbers' bodies, which do not decompose in the extreme cold.
more
Blazing Cat Fur: Planning to climb Mt Everest from Nepal? You have will carry out garbage (and not just your own)
