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Trash on Mount Everest

Trash on Mount Everest
Empty bottles litter the ground on the South Col route to the summit of Mount Everest. According to some estimates, more than 50 tons of non-biodegradable trash were abandoned on the mountain between the 1950s and the mid-1990s.
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