KATHMANDU, May 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – A Nepal Army team summited Mount (Mt.) Qomolangma this morning, in order to collect waste, discarded by climbers on the world’s tallest peak.
Ten members of the team, led by Lieutenant Col Kishor Adhikari, including five Sherpa climbing guides, reached the top of the mountain at 10:05 a.m. local time.
“Ten of the 13-member team have conquered the peak. They will descend collecting the waste dumped en route to the mountain peak,” Nepal Army spokesman, Brig Gen Krishna Prasad Bhandari, told Xinhua.
The Nepal Army has been leading in waste collection on Mt. Qomolangma and other tall mountains since 2019, and three teams have been mobilised this year to clean the highest peak, as well as, Mt. Lhotse, Mt. Baruntse and Mt. Annapurna.
The team, led by Adhikari, aims to collect around 10 tonnes of waste from the Mt. Qomolangma area alone.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of Mt. Qomolangma, and a record high of 478 climbers from 65 countries and regions have received the permits to ascend it from the Nepal side, during the spring climbing season, according to Nepal’s Department of Tourism.
