Sherpas to remove dead bodies, waste from Everest.

Waste scattered on the slope of Everest in this file photo. Photo: AFP/Rss

KATHMANDU, April 21: As part of the mega campaign to clean up Mt Everest, a team of experienced Sherpas are being mobilized to remove dead bodies and waste piled above the base camp of the worlds’ highest mountain.

Twelve Sherpas hired by the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee are setting up their camp at the Everest Base Camp within Thursday for the task. Concerned with the reports of dead bodies emerging from ice with the melting of snow and the route to Everest getting polluted in the recent years, the government has initiated this mega clean-up campaign with the help of the Sherpas.

This is the first time that the government, private sector and organizations working for the welfare of the mountaineering community initiated this kind of campaign.

Nepal Army, which is mandated to collect the waste below the Everest Base Camp, has already started its clean-up campaign from April 14. As of now, the army has lifted two tons of non bio-degradable waste from the region.