Nepalese mountaineer outraged Mountains of garbage pile up on K2

Fabienne Berner

7.8.2024

Torn tents, plastic packaging and oxygen bottles: A lot of garbage is simply left lying around on the second highest mountain in the world. A Nepalese mountaineer draws attention to the problem with an Insta video.

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  • Nepalese mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa posts alarming footage of a K2 ascent on his Instagram channel.
  • Mountains of garbage are piling up on the second highest mountain in the world. It's particularly bad at Camp 2.
  • A video showing broken tents and other plastic waste has already been viewed over 16,000 times on Instagram.
  • Tenzi Sherpa already drew attention to the waste problem on Mount Everest last year.

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