Mount Everest : mountain climbers leave their trash behind

Mount Everest has turned into the world's highest garbage dump.

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00:00It's a huge garbage mountain.

00:20Every year, 1,500 people try Everest, and about 400 reach the top, and all leave behind

00:35a rather dramatic trace for the environment, oxygen bottles, waste from expeditions, and

00:42the logistics of the mountains that we often leave behind when we go down.

00:57This garbage mountain is 8,000 metres above the Earth's surface, and it's a death zone.

01:04Collecting waste from the death zone and bringing it here is a huge task, and it's something

01:12that no one can do.