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RE: Getting to the Summit of Mount Everest. Part 1 - Getting to know the Sagarmatha
I actively avoided Everest not for its difficulty or whatever, but it is becoming an ecological disaster zone, with a lot of biological waste and trash going up and never coming down again. There are far more beautiful mountain ranges to trek where trash can bee taken away again...
You're right... it was once described as the highest junkyard in the world.
Though the Nepalese government is now taking stringent measures to curb the pollution there. I read somewhere that climbers are required tp make a deposit of i think $4,000 which is only refundable if they return with the same quantity of gears they went up with.
There's still more to be done.