10 events that need their own landfills
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The climb to Mount Everest
Mount Everest is quickly becoming the world's highest garbage dump. According to estimates, there are nearly 120 tons of litter, not to mention 120 dead bodies on the mountain. The trash includes high-tech climbing equipment, plastics, food, tins, oxygen tanks, aluminum cans, clothes, glass, paper and tents. The Nepalese government has initiated biannual clean-up expeditions, and some ecologists have suggested giving the mountain a rest (i.e.: be closed to climbers) for a year.
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This is ... well, words can't do this particular scene justice. I have read or heard in the past that there was garbage left behind on this mountain, and even that there were bodies. But I hadn't realized quite the scale of the mess. Somehow, not sure why, but I'd expect a different sort of behavior from these elite climbers. Give the mountain a rest is right! Have a Mt Everest Alumni event for all the folks who climbed this mountain and let their primary activity be cleaning it up!
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