according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas ...

Tonnes of trash -- including empty cans and gas canisters ... year's clean-up collected just a fraction of the rubbish on Mount Everest. [AFP] "Waste is a taboo in our society, considered as ...

One organization, Sagarmatha Next, is raising awareness of the issue by making art out of trash. More from So Expensive Mount Everest is littered with an estimated 50 metric tons of waste ...

But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt. Everest's slopes in the decades since ...

However, even though the mountain sits over 29,000 feet above sea level, officials still find trash littering the white snowcaps. Each year, around 60,000 people climb Mount Everest, leaving a ...

Ukraine calls for Russian climber ban in Himalayas Why Mount Everest's summit ... "It is a cause of concern for us. Up on Everest and other mountains the leftover trash, dead bodies and other ...

The trash problem first became evident in the 1980s and 1990s, when climbing on the mountain and trekking in Khumbu began to increase. Microplastics are everywhere: even on top of Mount Everest ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...