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Cleaning Everest

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Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 05 8:56 am Post subject: Cleaning Everest

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4672545.stm

Man's impact on the environment has been an issue on Mount Everest ever since adventurers began making serious efforts to reach the summit.
This week environmental activists are making entreaties to have the Sagarmatha National Park in the Himalayas put on the World Heritage danger list, because of the threat to it posed by global warming.
But there is a more mundane issue to be addressed by those who care for this region - the increasing number of visitors and the rubbish they leave behind

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
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Location: Eastoft

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 05 9:06 am Post subject:
I think the old adage "leave only footprints and take only photographs" (unless you are foraging responably) cannot be beaten

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 05 9:08 am Post subject:
Isn't Everest littered with a number of bodies? The conditions being so extreme, they cannot be recovered

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 05 9:17 am Post subject:
Yes, up in the attractively named death zone. there's a couple of hundred on Everest and K2.

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