Since the peak was first conquered in 1953, thousands of climbers have scaled it and many have left behind more than just their footprints.
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00:00Sherpas on Mount Everest say it will take years to clean up garbage littering the highest
00:06camp on the world's tallest mountain.
00:09A team worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest's
00:14peak.
00:15Since the mountain was first conquered in 1953, thousands of climbers have scaled it
00:39and many have left behind more than just their footprints.
00:45The Nepalese government funded teams of soldiers and Sherpas who removed 11 tons of garbage,
00:51four dead bodies and a skeleton from the mountain.