A record-holding Sherpa guide concerned about garbage on higher camps on Mount Everest

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
Associated Press

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest Mount Everest guides is concerned about the peak’s growing piles of garbage. Sherpa guide Kami Rita, who has scaled Mount Everest a record 30 times, says garbage has been surfacing as ice and snow melt from the peak. He said the situation was particularly dire in two camps closer to the summit while there had been cleanup campaigns for the camps farther below.  Kami Rita Sherpa has scaled Mount Everest a record 30 times. He was honored Wednesday by Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on the anniversary of the first successful summit by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.