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To Solve The Problem of Pollution On Everest
To Solve The Problem of Pollution On Everest
To Solve The Problem of Pollution On Everest
Everest project with an agency affiliated with the Mountain Guide School in
Lhasa. In 2016, Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy, a French mountain guide who has been
living in Tibet for 18 years, initiated an expedition to clean up the northeast route to the
top of Mount Everest. Supported by the Chinese government and local mountains
guides, the expedition is now an annual event with local yak owners taking waste from
the collection points to base camp. Together they brought down 10 tons of waste
and created a waste management system. Clean Everest is an annual initiative
involving 50 Tibetan mountain guides, 100 Chinese and foreign volunteers’ climbers,
collecting tons of high altitude waste and 50 yaks carrying them down.
With the Tibetan guides of Tibet Yarlha Shampo, Marion launches the first expedition to
clean the Northern face of Mount Everest. They start by clearing the slopes of the
garbage accumulated during the previous decades. That first year, they only managed
to collect one ton out of the ten. This waste collected with great difficulty cannot be
brought down by the yaks: the caravans have not arrived as planned, everything is
blocked. Marion and the group of fifty Tibetan guides are discouraged. They feel alone.
In four years, thanks to the Clean Everest expeditions, almost all of the ten tons of
waste accumulated during past expeditions has been brought down in bags and on the
backs of yaks. The mountain has regained its purity.
The populations of the mountains are today sensitised and the local authorities support
the project. A waste management system has been set up. They are committed to
replicating this model, particularly for other 8,000-meter peaks.
In 1889, German geographer Hans Meyer and Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller
3. K2- Karakoram Range, Pakistan/China
31 July 1954. the two climbers who reached the summit were Lino Lacedelli and Achille
Compagnoni.
4. Denali- Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States