You don’t need a map to get to the Everest base camp, just follow the trash, says climber Dragana Rajblovic. Rajblovic knows what she's talking about: She's the only Balkan woman to have conquered Mount Everest. To date, 5,200 men and women have climbed to the peak of the world's highest
You don’t need a map to get to the Everest base camp, just follow the trash, says climber Dragana Rajblovic.
And all of them have brought -- or will bring -- many pounds of gear with them to enable their weeks-long ascent to Everest's summit. But what goes up, does not necessarily come down. Much of it gets left behind. Their goal is to pick up 22,000 pounds of trash by the end of their 45-day campaign on May 29, the 66th anniversary of the first successful summit of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. The campaign is estimated to cost 23 million Nepalese rupees, about $206,540, according to Nepal's Department of Tourism.
Their job has, unfortunately, been made easier by global warming. The melting snow and ice are exposing dead bodies as well as all that debris."In 2017, seven bodies were found by climbers who were trying to clean up Everest, as well as 15 tons of human waste and many more tons of trash,” he said.
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