By This year, the Nepalese army has successfully removed eleven tonnes of rubbish, along with four corpses and one skeleton, from Mount Everest and two other Himalayan peaks.
Estimates suggest that over fifty tonnes of waste and more than 200 bodies remain scattered across Everest. This year, eight climbers either died or went missing, a decrease from the 19 reported last year.
The cleanup operation took troops 55 days to complete on Everest, Nuptse, and Lhotse.
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Looking ahead, the Nepalese government plans to establish a team of mountain rangers dedicated to monitoring waste and increasing funding for its collection.
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