05-11-13, 09:19 PM
VNA
There are major cleanups of all the ripped tents and oxygen bottles and other rubbish. There was about 25 tons of rubbish taken off the mountain in 2011. Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee are doing their best with limited resources to try and ensure the teams take the rubbish back with them. When we were there in 2003/4 all our rubbish was brought back out in barrels including human waste, which cost the expedition over £5000. Any real dedicated mountaineer will never leave any rubbish behind. It really pissed me and my friends off to have to ask trekers to pick up their litter, they are there to take in the incredible sights and aweinspiring scenery and cannot understand the simple rule of leave only footprints. :'( Enough of my rant and here is a picture of the bossons glacier in the alps, our attempt to do the 5 peaks in the Mount Blanc failed due to 2 metres of snow falling in 3 days causing some serious avalanches. Second picture is when we finally called it off and we headed back to try snowboarding. Simple survival rule "It will be there again tomorrow"
There are major cleanups of all the ripped tents and oxygen bottles and other rubbish. There was about 25 tons of rubbish taken off the mountain in 2011. Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee are doing their best with limited resources to try and ensure the teams take the rubbish back with them. When we were there in 2003/4 all our rubbish was brought back out in barrels including human waste, which cost the expedition over £5000. Any real dedicated mountaineer will never leave any rubbish behind. It really pissed me and my friends off to have to ask trekers to pick up their litter, they are there to take in the incredible sights and aweinspiring scenery and cannot understand the simple rule of leave only footprints. :'( Enough of my rant and here is a picture of the bossons glacier in the alps, our attempt to do the 5 peaks in the Mount Blanc failed due to 2 metres of snow falling in 3 days causing some serious avalanches. Second picture is when we finally called it off and we headed back to try snowboarding. Simple survival rule "It will be there again tomorrow"