Anyone climbing Mount Everest – whether to the summit or Base Camp, has a responsibility to bring down everything they took up.
Sadly however, much of the route to the summit is strewn with litter. Everything from food packaging to empty oxygen canisters and human waste. There’s a lack of toilets on Mount Everest, and not many recycling bins either. There are now regular, organised efforts to clean up the mountain but that still involves a great deal of risk to climbers. Anyone climbing Mount Everest – whether to the summit or Base Camp, has a responsibility to bring down everything they took up.