The Importance Of Environment To Climb Mount Everest

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The overall environment also assets from people who climb Mount Everest because teams of climbers that go up the mountain help keep the mountain clean and unpolluted. The textbook expresses this idea on page 425, where it talks about how Nepal’s government has hired many programs that help plant trees to reduce deforestation and prohibiting climbers from cutting down trees. They have also taken out over 50 tons of garbage like human remains, oxygen tanks, even old tents that were left behind (pg 425). In the book of Peak, It does not really talk about how there are clean up crews on the mountain and programs that help with the garbage problem, but on page 219, Yogi, Sun-jo, and Peak almost made it to Camp 6, also called the death zone, but

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