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Trash hashed from Everest Death Zone
KATHMANDU, JUL 18 -
The Extreme Everest Expedition 2010 has successfully completed its goal of clearing garbage from the “Death Zone” above 8,000 m on Mt. Everest.
A team of 20 Sherpas led by Namgyal Sherpa under the coordination of Chakra Karki set out to Everest Base Camp on April 25 and cleared out 1,800 kg of garbage, equally divided between degradable and non-degradable waste. The trash was piled onto a symbolic mountain at Everest Base Camp.
The degradable waste was brought to Namche Bazaar and handed over to the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee. The non-disposable garbage was carried by yaks and jopkyos to Lukla airport and flown to Kathmandu, said a press statement issued by Nepal Investment Bank, the major sponsor of the programme.
The team also retrieved two bodies — of Swiss climber Gianni Goltz, who died last year, and of Russian climber Sergey Duganov.
“We are very happy to see our dream materialize, something that we never thought would happen. The volunteers carried almost 200 kg of garbage down with them. Everyone was so sincere about their contribution,” said Namgyal Sherpa.Immediate past president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, said, “The snow-capped Himalaya of Nepal is gradually shrinking due to global warming, exposing the threat of a tsunami among the people living below the mountains.
Sherpa added that the threat was to 1.3 billion people whose source of water directly and indirectly depends on the water flowing down from the Himalaya.
Posted on: 2010-07-19 08:29
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