Mount Everest clean-up team picks up 3 tonnes of garbage
By DW
03 May 2019 |
8:42 am
A special team has been tasked with cleaning up the world's highest mountain, littered with garbage from decades of commercial mountaineering. Everest is sometimes described as the world's highest rubbish dump.
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