To commemorate the 70th anniversary of mankind's successful ascent of Mount Everest, in June this year, the Nepalese Army sent three mountaineering teams to carry out a "mountain cleanup" activity, removing more than 35,000 kilograms of waste from the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, and three other peaks. During the clean-up activities, two Nepalese mountain guides accompanied by the team were tragically killed and four Nepalese army personnel were injured.
When I was a child, I watched news reports about who climbed Mount Everest, felt a special feat, conquered the world's highest peak with personal strength, and saw some works mentioning that the frozen climbers on the way to the summit of Mount Everest felt sad, and the strong man died before he could get ahead, and lost his precious life for the great ideal. However, now I see the news of who climbed Mount Everest, in addition to being rescued and not giving money, that is, how many tons of garbage to clean up, now Mount Everest is surrounded by garbage, and congestion occurred on the summit of Mount Everest during the "May Day", completely without the feeling of the past.
According to climber Tenzi Sherpa, "This is the dirtiest camp I've ever seen. We can see a lot of tents, empty oxygen cylinders, steel bowls, spoons, sanitary mats, paper, these are all things used by humans, these things were left behind by people who climbed Mount Everest. I feel sad every time because I see a lot of expedition groups and companies choosing to cut off their company logo and leave all their tents in place. ”
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 12 tons of feces and 50,000 tons of garbage on Mount Everest, as well as hundreds of corpses of victims. The Nepalese government has decided to prohibit climbers from carrying plastic film and its products less than 0.03 mm thick, such as soft drinks, up the mountain from January 2020. To make matters worse, Everest's glaciers, the source of much drinking water, are polluted, and more than 1 billion people around the world depend on the Himalayan water for their livelihoods.
In fact, in the face of the accumulation of garbage, the Clean Mountain Campaign began many years ago, and although the movement made good efforts to clean the mountain, every time there were companies that left garbage on the mountain, so it was difficult to clean.
The real heroes of the Himalayas are Nepalese porters, and the materials in the mountains mainly rely on them to carry the mountains, from more than 1,000 meters above sea level to 8,000 meters above sea level, as long as the road is not accessible, they will be found.
The so-called challengers and climbing teams, hiking up Everest, must hire porters to carry the weight or guide the way, and the garbage on Everest also needs to be cleaned up.
Whether they are porters or garbage collectors, most of them are Sherpas, especially the hiking trail on the southern slope of the Everest Base Camp, Sherpa porters can be seen everywhere, small skinny bodies can carry 6 bottles of gas and even carry climbers to C4 or C2 camps in this SW area of more than 8,000 meters.
It can be said that without these porters, the hike would be very arduous, and without Sherpas, the dream of climbing on the southern slope is just a dream for the climber.
In the past 70 years, more than 2,000 people have successfully climbed Mount Everest, and the greater the number of successes, the lower the gold content. As an increasingly commercial climb of Mount Everest, if it is to highlight its "desire to conquer" at the expense of the health of hundreds of millions of people, then every summit is a harm, whether it is for the environment or for the surrounding residents.
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