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A team led by Japanese mountaineer Ken Noguchi collected about 500 kilograms of rubbish during an annual clean up at the world's highest peak, the climber said on Monday.
The trash included tins, old tents, old food and medicines, he said, adding that some of the garbage will be displayed in his home country to raise awareness to keep the mountain clean.
"We launched our cleaning campaign from northern side this year and the team successfully collected 500 kilograms of garbage from the Advance Base Camp located at 6400m and brought it down to Base Camp at 5200m," Noguchi said.
Noguchi, who started the Everest cleanup campaign in 2000 said that the 8,848-metre (29,198-foot) mountain has become "more cleaner" as he found relatively less garbage this year.
It is the fifth time he has led a cleaning team at Mt. Everest and has so far collected nearly nine tonnes of rubbish.
Bottled oxygen, kilometres of rope, food and tents need to be carried up to four camps between base camp and the summit during an Everest expedition.
First scaled in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the mountain has been reached 3,067 times, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. |
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070528184741.25apqnym&cat=null
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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They should get New Labor to slap a recycling tax on all mountaineers.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Whitegold, Do climbers have to pay to go up something like Everest - if so then a premium towards a combined clean-up operations like the one described is probably not a bad idea.
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| A Japanese team collected mountain of trash from Everest |
I hope they placed it all in the correct bins and made sure the lids were closed, 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It doesn't surprise me that it was a Japanese team. Japan has to one of the cleanest countries in the world. You can walk through Tokyo, a city of 23 million people, and not see a piece of rubbish and the strange thing is you don't see any bins.
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| Megamum wrote: |
| Whitegold, Do climbers have to pay to go up something like Everest - if so then a premium towards a combined clean-up operations like the one described is probably not a bad idea. |
Yes, you have to pay to climb Everest, and quite a large amount http://www.k2news.com/negregandmountains.htm . Even just to go trekking in Nepal you have to pay for a trekking permit
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| Japow wrote: |
| It doesn't surprise me that it was a Japanese team. Japan has to one of the cleanest countries in the world. You can walk through Tokyo, a city of 23 million people, and not see a piece of rubbish and the strange thing is you don't see any bins. |
you can swim through the sea and not see any whales either..
havnt they condidered the recycling climber who will just take a stroll up everest hoping to find enough kit on the way to make it!!
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That was the Dutch fella in his boxers, obviously didn't find enough of the right kind of stuff though 
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Did they clean up the dead bodies?
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Japan is clean and environmentally friendly.
However here in Hokkaido the amount of waste generated through triple wrapping nearly everything you buy is phemomenal.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Mike Pow wrote: |
Japan is clean and environmentally friendly.
However here in Hokkaido the amount of waste generated through triple wrapping nearly everything you buy is phemomenal. |
Yep! On the one hand, the city streets are so clean you can eat from it. On the other, they generate so much trash you won't believe. It's just hiden away in landfills and such.
By the way, the Japaness aren't the first nor the only group that organized "clean up climbs" on Mt. Everest. Plenty of other groups has done that.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Japan is perhaps the most productive nation on Earth. Few, if any, countries produce more output-per-person than Japan.
Emergers, like China, and laggards, like Britain, are far more wasteful.
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Whitegold, I assume you're not british.
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You know it makes sense.
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| abc wrote: |
By the way, the Japaness aren't the first nor the only group that organized "clean up climbs" on Mt. Everest. Plenty of other groups has done that. |
http://www.bellsfromeverest.com/
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