Nepal’s Everest Cleanup Yields 24,000 Pounds of Garbage and 4 Bodies
The cleaners spent weeks collecting food wrappings, cans, bottles and empty oxygen cylinders
Workers pile up sacks of waste collected from Mount Everest for recycling, in Kathmandu on June 5.
Photographer: Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images
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Kathmandu, Nepal (AP) -- A Nepal government expedition to Mount Everest has removed 11,000 kilograms (24,200 pounds) of garbage and four dead bodies from the world's highest mountain, officials said Wednesday.
Tourism Department official Danduraj Ghimire said the cleaners spent weeks collecting food wrappings, cans, bottles and empty oxygen cylinders.