Apple pie scheme to save Mt. Everest.

A mountaineer and entrepreneur has hit upon the novel scheme of selling apple pies to save the world’s highest peak Mount Everest from becoming the highest garbage dump littered with cans, bottles, tents and other refuse left behind by careless climbers.

Mt. Everest.

Dawa Steven Sherpa, who first climbed the 8,848-metre peak in 2007, runs the world’s highest bakery – the Base Camp Bakery – from a green tent at the base camp of Mt Everest at a height of 5,330 m. A trained baker dishes out cheese croissant, zucchini bread, chocolate chip cookies, the day’s special and other delights. An apple pie at the Base Camp Bakery costs Nepali Rs.350 (about $4.60).

In Kathmandu, it will cost you a third of the price. But every NRs. 100 a patron pays at the world’s highest bakery goes to remove 100 kg of garbage from Mt Everest.

It’s tied to the “Cash for Trash” project started by Dawa last year with his Eco Everest Expedition in memory of Everest hero Edmund Hillary to bring down the trash accumulating on the mountain year after year.

“When I climbed Mt Everest for the first time in 2007, I saw a lot of garbage and human waste on Mt Everest,” the IANS news service quoted Dawa as said, adding, “It was really getting filthy”.

Last year, Dawa’s Eco Everest Expedition 2008 brought down under a tonne of garbage. This year it was almost six tonnes – 4,646.5 kg of garbage and over a tonne of helicopter debris.

While whatever could be burnt was handed over to the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, the rest has been brought down to Khumjung village and stored in a lodge owned by Dawa’s family. Now he plans to bring art students of the country and abroad so that they can recycle the refuse into sculptures.

These would eventually be displayed in the Himalayan villages as a warning message that the mountains are not immune to mankind. They can be affected by man for good or bad and need to be protected.

Dawa says he will lead a cleaning expedition in 2010 as well and beyond that.

“I am going to go on doing this till there is more garbage left on Mt Everest,” he promises.

* Source : – Nepalmountainnews Report – 5 Jul 2009

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Everest Autographs – British Mount Everest Expedition Card.

Those who know me will no that I have decided to sell most of my Mount Everest related autographs. Why? I want to just concentrate on building up my collection of first edition mountaineering books.

Today, Sunday 17th May I have put some great items on Ebay Auctions for sale. Items like a 1972 British Mount Everest Expedition Card signed by ALL members, Chris Bonington, James Roberts, Dave Bathgate, Mick Burke, Nick Estcourt, Dougal Haston, Kelvin Kent, Hamish MacInnes, Doug Scott, Barney Rosedale and Graham Tiso as shown below.

Also a RARE 1975 BBC British Mount Everest Expedition Card signed by Sherpa Pertember, Sherpa Arg Phu, Adrian Gordon, Charles Clarke, Doug Scott, Dave Clarke, Chris Bonington, Allen Fyffe, Mike Rhodes, Paul Braithwaite, Hamish MacInnes, Jim Duff plus one other I cant make out as shown below.

You have to admit that you don’t see these every day and for a collector they are getting hard to find. I have also listed some Stamp Covers that have been signed by SEVEN of the 1953 British Everest Expedition team. Although I have kept some of these back for myself for a rainy day!

Please have a look, some items have a low start price and you might end up getting a bargain!

Check out my Ebay sales

* Source :  – http://everest1953.blogspot.com/2009/05/everest-autographs.html

** take a look at my photo gallery which pictures the story of the discovery and climbing the Mt. Everest :

– discovery and climbing Everest.

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