STORY: In a collection of social media posts, Tenzi Sherpa has highlighted the quantity of trash left behind on the fourth camp station known as South Col, which has included sleeping luggage, footwear and spoons.
It’s obligatory for climbers to carry their waste down from the mountain and declare again a rubbish deposit of $4,000 from the federal government. However expedition organizers and mountaineering officers mentioned monitoring camps practically 8,000 meters (26,246 toes) excessive is each troublesome and ineffective.
Authorities collected 13 tonnes of garbage from Everest and the close by Lhotse Peak this yr as a part of a marketing campaign to maintain the mountains clear.