Idle is also idle. Why not take advantage of the canceled spring mountaineering season to clean up the southern slope of Mount Everest? This is a question that the President of Nepal Mountaineering Association has been thinking about in the past ten days.
Xinhua News Agency, Kathmandu, March 22 (reporter Zhou Shengping) Idle is also idle. Why not use the opportunity of being canceled in the spring mountaineering season to clean up the southern slope of Mount Everest? This is a question that the President of Nepal Mountaineering Association has been thinking about in the past ten days.
In view of the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia, Nepal announced the cancellation of mountaineering activities in the spring mountaineering season in 2020, and the mountaineering license that has been issued has temporarily expired.
Single Tower told reporters on the 22nd: “The crisis can also be turned into an opportunity. Hundreds of Sherpa guides are temporarily unemployed. The government can hire them to clean up Everest garbage, which also creates job opportunities.”
The spring mountaineering season begins in March and lasts for about three months. It is the best time to climb Mount Everest from the southern slope within one year, and it is also the main time period for Sherpa guides and other Alpine workers to generate income.
The Single Tower believes that although no one climbed Mount Everest this spring, it can thoroughly clean up the garbage accumulated on the mountain for many years and send a positive message to the whole world.
50-year-old Kemi Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest 24 times and is the person who has climbed Mount Everest the most times. He strongly agreed with the idea of Nepal Mountaineering Association: “Mount Everest is our mountain, and we have the responsibility to keep it holy.”
According to his introduction, after a month of hard work last year, the place below Camp 4 in Nanpo was cleaned up, but above Camp 4, there is still a large amount of waste left on the mountain above 8000 meters above sea level, which is very difficult to clean up.
It is understood that Nepal Mountaineering Association has officially sent a letter requesting government support. Achaya, director of Nepal National Tourism Administration, told Xinhua News Agency that the initiative of Cleaning Mount Everest was very good. The tourism administration had discussed with Mountaineering Association several times, but considering the current global spread of the new coronavirus epidemic, it is not yet possible to make a decision.