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Cleaning volunteers find four bodies on Mount Everest
Fourteen volunteers currently cleaning up waste on Mount Everest encountered four bodies during their work. The climbers want to clean up 10,000 kilos of waste in 45 days, after two weeks the counter is at over 3,000 kilos.
Former chairman Ang Tshering Sherpa of the Nepalese mountaineering association NMA is not surprised that the group encountered bodies. According to her, global warming is causing more and more bodies to appear now that the snow is melting.
The highest mountain in the world is littered with cans, bottles, plastic and more, left behind by climbers trying to reach the 8,848 meter high summit. Since 1922, when the first victims were registered, more than two hundred climbers have died.
The volunteers receive help from a military helicopter to bring the waste down. The team reached the Nepalese base camp on Sunday, located at an altitude of 5.3 kilometers, but is also continuing the clean-up operation at higher altitudes.
Since 2011, the Nepalese government has been trying to reduce the amount of waste on the mountain, but the increasing flow of climbers makes achieving that goal difficult. From 2014 climbers have to pay a deposit, which they get back when they descend with at least 8 kilos of waste.
Opruimende vrijwilligers vinden vier lichamen op Mount Everest | NU - Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl
Fourteen volunteers currently cleaning up waste on Mount Everest encountered four bodies during their work. The climbers want to clean up 10,000 kilos of waste in 45 days, after two weeks the counter is at over 3,000 kilos.
Former chairman Ang Tshering Sherpa of the Nepalese mountaineering association NMA is not surprised that the group encountered bodies. According to her, global warming is causing more and more bodies to appear now that the snow is melting.
The highest mountain in the world is littered with cans, bottles, plastic and more, left behind by climbers trying to reach the 8,848 meter high summit. Since 1922, when the first victims were registered, more than two hundred climbers have died.
The volunteers receive help from a military helicopter to bring the waste down. The team reached the Nepalese base camp on Sunday, located at an altitude of 5.3 kilometers, but is also continuing the clean-up operation at higher altitudes.
Since 2011, the Nepalese government has been trying to reduce the amount of waste on the mountain, but the increasing flow of climbers makes achieving that goal difficult. From 2014 climbers have to pay a deposit, which they get back when they descend with at least 8 kilos of waste.
Opruimende vrijwilligers vinden vier lichamen op Mount Everest | NU - Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl