Everest “Death Zone” set up for cleaning
- Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 7:08
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On Monday, organizers said that this week twenty Nepali climbers are setting off to Mount Everest to try and remove decades of old garbage from the mountain.
This is one of the worlds highest ever clean-up campaign.
Many foreign and Nepali climbers have cleaned Mount Everest in the past but no one has dared to clean above 8,000 meters (26,246 feet), an area known as the “Death Zone” for the lack of oxygen and treacherous terrain.
The clean up team will carry empty rucksacks and special bags, they will risk the zone’s thin air and freezing temperatures to pick empty oxygen bottles, gas canisters, torn tents, ropes, and utensils lying between the South Col and the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) summit.
Cleaning in the “Death Zone” of Mount Everest is very difficult and dangerous.
The garbage was buried there under the snow in the past. But now it has come out on the surface because of melting of snow due to “Global Warming”.
