Environmental Issues

All things come with a price. In exchange for the contribution of expeditions carried out in the Himalayan range to Nepal’s economy, the environment has suffered tremendously.
As the number of climbers visiting the country increases, it has become certain that the increase in pollution and other negative environmental repercussions will continue.
Dubbed by American Barry G. Bishop as the “highest junkyard in the world”, Mt. Everest has been the home of lost or thrown climbing equipment, foods, medical waste such as syringes and medicines, plastics, tins, clothes, papers, tents, oxygen bottles and corpses. It is estimated that each team leaves behind an average of 500 kilograms of trash per expedition and the garbage is scattered in different altitudes.
The route that is most notoriously known for its trash is on the Southeast Ridge since it is the most popular route to the summit. Another thing is that not all waste can decompose such as oxygen bottles that are also heavy. Usually this type of garbage is thrown into the crevasses that surprisingly show up at the base of the mountain.
With the rise of environmental problems, the Nepalese government, climbers and environmentalists have created solutions that allow the mountain to recuperate. Traces of progress have shown up paving the way to the road to recovery.

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