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Climbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reach

  • Written by Suzanne OConnell, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
Climbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reachTrash collected in a 2019 cleanup that removed 24,000 pounds (10,000 kilograms) of garbage from Mount Everest.Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest, Earth’s highest peak above sea level. Hundreds of mountaineers from around the world travel to Asia in April and May, headed...

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