Remaining 3,000 kg waste at Mt Everest base camp shall be brought down by June 3Kathmandu, May 26Four-thousand kilograms of nonsense gathered from Mt Everest was brought to Kathmandu under ‘Clean mountain campaign.&Three-thousand kilograms of nonsense still remained at the mountain site, according to the Nepali Army.The nonsense was gathered in collaboration with the NA, Nepal Tourism Board, Mountaineering Association of Nepal and Khumbhu Pashang Lhamu Rural Municipality.Remaining nonsense would be brought to Kathmandu within June 3, according to NA.According to the NA spokesperson largeyan Dev Pandey, the NA followed the command and directives of CoAS Thapa, which stated that the NA shall work for cleaning the mountain.
This is the first time that the NA took initiatives to clean the tallest mountain of the world, according to Pandey.The NA shall participate at a program in Lukla to mark the ‘Sagarmatha Day&, tomorrow.Twelve Sherpas helped to gather the nonsense above the base camp,& said Pandey, adding that the Sherpas gathered nonsense from different camps of Mt.
Everest.The Nepali Army first carried the nonsense gathered from Mt Everest to Gorakshep, located inside the Sagarmatha National Park, by a helicopter.Also a helicopter was used to airlift the nonsense from Gorakshep to Okhalghunga.
It employed vehicles as well as a helicopter to carry the nonsense from Okhaldhunga to Kathmandu, according to Pandey.The NA has stored 3,000 kg nonsense on its office premises at the Tribhuvan International Airport.It handed over 1,000 kg nonsense to Blue Waste to Worth (BW2V), a social enterprise committed to creating value from the mountain waste.Pandey, said that NA shall hand over the remaining nonsense to BW2V on June 5, on the occasion of ‘Environment Day&.He said that after completing the Mt Everest clean-up campaign, the NA shall continue its cleaning drive in other mountains of the country, on a precedence basis.The post 4,000 kg nonsense from Mount Everest brought to Kathmandu seemed first on The Himalayan Times.