The last surviving member of the first mountaineering expedition to conquer Mount Everest is unhappy with the current state of the mountain, saying it is now crowded and dirty and not being revered as ...

But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt. Everest's slopes in the decades since ...

Visitors have left an estimated 50 metric tons of waste on Everest. The mountain is so full of garbage that people have called it "the world's highest garbage dump." Nepal has tried all kinds of ...

In 2019, Nepal's military began annual clean-up operations on Mount Everest and has since collected 119 tons of trash from the mountain, as reported by Sydsvenskan. During cleaning operations ...

One organization, Sagarmatha Next, is raising awareness of the issue by making art out of trash. More from So Expensive Mount Everest is littered with an estimated 50 metric tons of waste ...

The price to climb Mount Everest will soon increase for the first time in nearly a decade, as Nepal announces a sharp mark-up ...

Each year, Nepali troops also undertake a massive cleanup effort on Everest and nearby mountains. Last year, they removed an estimated ten metric tons of garbage from Mount Everest, Mount Lhotse ...

The new measures aim to address garbage pollution with mandatory waste ... a 36 per cent increase in permit fees for climbing Mount Everest, raising the total amount from $11,000 to $15,000.

Regmi said cleaning campaigns were organized to collect garbage and rope fixing as well as other safety measures were undertaken regularly. Climbers returning from the Everest say the mountain is ...

Regmi said cleaning campaigns were organised to collect garbage and rope fixing as well as other safety measures were undertaken regularly. Climbers returning from the Everest say the mountain is ...