17 Tones of Garbage Collected at the Bottom of Everest
The staff members of Nepalese airline have cleared of
garbage the outskirts of Lukla village, which is the main trailhead, leading to
the alpinist camp at the highest point of the globe – Everest mountain; they
have collected 17 tons of empty beer bottles and cans, has reported the Reuters
agency with the reference to the representatives of the airline.
Thousands of mountaineers from all over the world come every
year to the Nepalese region of Khumbhu, where there opens a fine panoramic view
of the mountain Everest, and leave tons of garbage after them. For the recent
years foreign and Nepalese mountaineers have collected a large amount of it,
including empty oxygen bottles, plastic packages, cans and bottles, left on the
slopes of Everest. But, namely the traveling paths leading from Lukla village
to the main alpinist camp on the Everest were piled with garbage at most.
On Friday the Nepalese private airline Yeti has finished the
large scaled tree-month long campaign on the collection of garbage, which
accumulated for the long time in the outskirts of the village. According to the
representative of the airline, the bottles will be sent to brewery works for recycling.
The local authorities hope that this campaign will draw the
attention of tourists and local inhabitants to the ecological situation in the
region and create conditions for improving and preserving the ecological
balance in the Himalayas.
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