48+ Trash On Everest Is A Mountain Of Its Own Images

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48+ Trash On Everest Is A Mountain Of Its Own Images. As visits to mount everest and its two base camps reach upwards of a million each year, business is booming. And the lonely mountain monks.

Shocking Images Reveal How Tourists Have Transformed Mount Everest Into A Disgusting Wasteland Daily Mail Online
Shocking Images Reveal How Tourists Have Transformed Mount Everest Into A Disgusting Wasteland Daily Mail Online from i.dailymail.co.uk
New trash bins and a waste incinerator have also recently been installed near the mountain. But this year's haul from an estimated 700 climbers, guides and porters on the mountain has been a shock to the ethnic sherpas who worked on the government's cleanup. The everest region, the khumbu valley and sagarmatha national park used to be a remote wilderness.

A team are climbing to the summit to check.

Used oxygen bottles, torn tents, ropes, broken ladders, cans and plastic wrappers. Its peak is on the border of nepal and china. This is altering the region, its culture as well as its ecology, forever. Mount everest is the highest mountain on earth.