Mount Everest’s fabled “death zone” will soon be a cleaner place. A team of Nepali mountaineers left Kathmandu Tuesday with plans to clear tons of rubbish from the peak’s highest camp.
The climbers, lead by Mangyal Sherpa, will climb to 26,246 feet and will also remove the bodies of dead climbers, reported The Guardian on Monday Expedition members will use special bags to collect the bodies before lowering them down the mountain and carrying them to base camp. They plan on retrieving five bodies, including the body of a Swiss climber who died on the mountain in 2008. Mangyla says much of the trash is decades old, and has only become visible as the snow has melted due to global warming.
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