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Mount Everest is due for a cleanup
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| Magnetonium |
First, Chinese banned plastic shopping bags this year. Now they want to clean up Everest. I can only imagine how much rubbish and dead bodies have accumulated up there over the last 50 years. The downside is - you might want to put off your trip to Everest for the next little while.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/US/s...=5281043&page=1
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Cleanup Plan May Limit Number of Visitors, Climbers to the Popular Climbing Site, Chinese Officials Say
By AUDRA ANG Associated Press Writer
BEIJING June 24, 2008 June 24, 2008 (AP)
With the debris of more than 50 years of climbing — oxygen canisters, tents, backpacks and even some bodies — Mount Everest has been called the world's highest garbage dump.
Now China is moving to clean up its northern side of the mountain and protect its fragile Himalayan environment, announcing a trash collection campaign that could limit the number of climbers and other visitors in 2009.
"Our target is to keep even more people from abusing Mount Everest," Zhang Yongze, Tibet's environmental protection chief was quoted Monday as saying by the Xinhua News Agency.
Everest's 29,035-foot peak — the world's tallest — lies on the border between China and Nepal, with climbers providing a large source of income for both countries.
However, overcrowded routes and the accumulation of debris have led to some calls for the mountain to be closed to climbers temporarily.
Last year, more than 40,000 people visited the mountain from the Chinese side, which is located in Tibet, the China Daily newspaper said. Although that number was less than 10 percent of those who went to the mountain on the southern, or Nepali, side in 2000, the paper said environmentalists estimate they could have left behind as much as 120 tons of garbage, or about 6 pounds per tourist.
There is no definitive figure on how much trash has been left on Everest in 54 years of climbing since Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered the mountain on May 29, 1953.
The high altitude, deep snow, icy slopes and thin air make it difficult for climbers to carry anything other than the necessities down the mountain once they reach the summit.
The Nepalese government has tightened its laws, and climbers and their guides are now required to carry out gear and trash or forfeit a $4,000 deposit.
While China isn't known to have a similar rule, it has enacted other restrictions, including forbidding vehicles from driving directly to the base camp at 16,995 feet, Zhang said. The move also was aimed at preserving the melting Rongbuk glacier, which has retreated 490 feet at the base of Everest in the past decade, he said.
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| adi_hanson |
how in hypocritical lol , there ready to trash ever other part of there country though
i is china and when i grow up, me wants to be a superpower |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi_hanson
how in hypocritical lol , there ready to trash ever other part of there country though
i is china and when i grow up, me wants to be a superpower |
They import a lot of the world's rubbish, too ... mainly electronics, metal, tires, and other recyclables ... |
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| adi_hanson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Magnetonium
They import a lot of the world's rubbish, too ... mainly electronics, metal, tires, and other recyclables ... |
iknow , criminals are making a fortune over here stealing cars and flogging them to china as scrap |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi_hanson
iknow , criminals are making a fortune over here stealing cars and flogging them to china as scrap |
:wtf: I doubt thats true. Going through all the trouble to sell it from scrap? That sounds silly. There's more money in re-selling the cars. Plenty of Chinese car mechanics to fix them up and sell to Chinese workers. |
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| adi_hanson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Magnetonium
:wtf: I doubt thats true. Going through all the trouble to sell it from scrap? That sounds silly. There's more money in re-selling the cars. Plenty of Chinese car mechanics to fix them up and sell to Chinese workers. |
no its true but when i say cars i mean cars , hundreds at a time
have a read
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...icle1347211.ece |
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| Magnetonium |
Holly . :eek: |
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