Nepal Enlists Mt. Everest Climbers to Clean Trash-Strewn Slopes
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 19:30
in Earth & Climate
The world’s most iconic mountain is also a notorious trash heap.On Mount Everest, tents, sleeping bags, oxygen cylinders and even the corpses of climbers who never made it down remain, left by the thousands who have taken on the world’s highest peak.