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Into Thin Air, and Thick Refuse
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27 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Into Thin Air, and Thick Refuse In the 50 years since Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary first scaled Mt. Everest, so much refuse piled up on the world's highest mountain that some took to calling it the world's highest garbage dump. By the early 1990s, an estimated 50 tons of metal, glass, and plastic, including many hundreds of abandoned oxygen canisters, had been lef ... |
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| Topics: Nepal, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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