Nepal removes tonnes of rubbish, corpses and a skeleton from Mount Everest

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Prabhu Ram Sharma, Nepal’s Chief of the Army Staff, said tonnes of garbage, four human corpses and one skeleton were recovered from the Himalayan peaks “under the adverse weather conditions”. Mount Everest has long struggled with its status as the “world’s highest garbage dump” with hundreds of mountaineers arriving at the peak each year. open image in gallery Nepali workers search for recyclable materials from a a pile of waste collected from Mount Everest, in Kathmandu in 2019 More than 600 people attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest each year, and each climber discards, on an average, 8kg of rubbish consisting of oxygen canisters, tents, food containers and even human waste. open image in gallery Mount Everest has long struggled with its status as the ‘world’s highest garbage dump’ In efforts to reduce waste, Nepal’s government asked the Everest climbers to bring their excreta back to base camp in poo bags after summiting the world’s tallest mountain, The local municipality of Pasang Lhamu announced that climbers will be required to purchase poo bags at base camp which will be “checked upon their return”.