Mount Everest: The Tallest Mountain

Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. It is also the highest garbage dump in the world. The mountain is littered with trash from top to bottom. This has become a hazard to climbers and natives.

Mount Everest may look clean but it is not. It is piled with trash totaling up to 10 tons of garbage on Everest. 2.5 tons of the garbage is classified as bio-hazardous waste. There are pieces of tents,sleeping bags,oxygen cylinders,food wrappers,water bottles,and corpse from climbers who died trying to reach the top.

To help clean up the mountain there has been groups that go up just to bring down trash. Some groups have been cleaning up the mountain for years bringing down tons of trash. One group is Eco expedition who has been cleaning up the mountain since 2008. They brought down almost 13 tons of garbage. To recycle some of the trash sculptors make it into beautiful pieces art. …show more content…
They now require climbers to deposit $4,000 and risk losing it if they don’t bring down all their trash. They also require climbers to bring down 18 pounds of trash excluding their own oxygen bottles. They also give cash rewards to the brave sherpas that bring down extra oxygen