02/04/2021
8knot team conveys our respect to these brave men of mountains.
Nepalese climbers remove 2.2 tons of waste from Everest in 47 days amid COVID lockdown ! They have managed to remove 2.2 tons of waste from base camps of the world’s highest mountain peaks in the Himalayas in less than 47 days. 12 Nepalese climbers covered a total distance of more than 450 kilometres on all 8,000m peaks around Mount Everest. The initiative, launched by Bally Peak Outlook Foundation, began in September 2020 when official trails in the mountains were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 10,000 expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest since 1905. The expedition starts by setting up camps at the base of the mountains, which goes on to polluting the areas in the process.
But, most importantly the project was able to restore the base camps to their natural state by cleaning up the garbage, which includes food waste, batteries, beer cans, oxygen cylinders, human waste, plastic, batteries, etc. According to Bally Peak Outlook Foundation, the second phase of the project will continue in 2021, under which teams will clean up the base camps of Kanchenjunga (8,586m), Dhaulagiri (8,167m), Manaslu (8,156m), Annapurna (8,091m), as well as Everest for a third time.
Data/photos : The Sikkim Today ()
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