Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world's highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big -spending climbers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind.
Fluorescent tents,discarded climbing equipment, gas canisters and human excrement litters the well trodden route to the summit of the 8848 meter peak.
As the number of climbers on the mountain has soared at least 600 people have scaled the world's highest peak so far this year alone the problem has worsened.
Meanwhile melting glaciers caused by global warming are exposing trash that has accumulated on the mountain.
Efforts have been made Five year ago Nepal implemented a$4000 rubbish deposit per team that would be refunded if each climber brought down at least 8 kg of waste. On the tibet side of the mountain,they are required to bring down the same amount and are fine$100 per kilograme if they don't
In 2017 climbers in Nepal brought down 25 tonnes of trash and 15 tonnes of human waste. This season even more was carried down but this is just a fraction of the rubbish dumped each year,with only half climbers lugging down the required amounts , the sagarmatha pollution control committee say.