*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Sherpas on Mount Everest say the highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take ...

"Some climbers just dump their trash in the crevasse ... overcrowding is one reason for the recent issues on Mount Everest. In 2019, a photo shared to X — formerly known as Twitter — showed ...

But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt. Everest's slopes in the decades since ...

One organization, Sagarmatha Next, is raising awareness of the issue by making art out of trash. More from So Expensive Mount Everest is littered with an estimated 50 metric tons of waste ...

Nepal has sharply increased the climbing permit fees for Qomolangma, which is also known as Mount Everest in the West, and ...

However, even though the mountain sits over 29,000 feet above sea level, officials still find trash littering the white snowcaps. Each year, around 60,000 people climb Mount Everest, leaving a ...