Clearing Everest's Trash - 360 | National Geographic 

As more people visit Mount Everest, trash is being left behind in Sagarmatha National Park and hard to manage. What are your thoughts on this issue?

This is the side of things they don’t show on TV

Instead of "requesting" it should be a requirement to pack out garbage or you can't climb.

They should have removed their trash every year. This is what people do. We destroy everything we touch!

That's terrible! All that trash in such a beautiful place people should be ashamed of themselves.

If you can't hull your trash out, you shouldn't be going.

Revolting.....I'm not a happy Clapper or hippy, bit if you go to look at something amazing, leave it amazing in a good way when you leave

This kind is thing absolutely boils my blood, it makes me so purely enraged with human beings and the immaturity and Idiocy that people all seem to share. I just want the world to be a beautiful place, I want animals to live healthy lives, I want children to enjoy and be amazed by the sights of nature. But, as this video shows, even the most amazing things that nature has to give us can be ruined. Thank you Nat Geo for posting this, I don’t think many people knew of this till now.

I never could imagine that on Everest is such a big mess...!

Unbelieveable! How can someone not take their Trash with them?

Thank you for doing this. If we don’t take care of this planet we don’t deserve to live on it, period

I’ve never seen a video like this before, that was incredible! The 360 effect was astounding! It felt like I was there and that made the impact of the message so much stronger for me. I had no idea it was like that.

Humans destroy the environment wherever they go. Tourism in the Himalayas should be curtailed.

Really great effort. Often we look into beaches, seas, and the air being polluted. Hardly any coverage is done on the increasing amount of trash and plastics in our beloved Everest.

no wonder that mountain kills so many of us, we deserve it...

*Nice video idea!* Makes you see things from different perspectives

We need to clean our planet from filth and dirty in order to have clean air. Great video.

This is umbelievable! People who are so motivated and dedicated to climb this would then do this type of thing? Unbelievable! How can people be so mindless????

I dont't get it. Is it that hard to keep your trash to you when visiting such remote places? Or rather, any places? I feel like the wealthiest people are also the most ignorant most of the time.

So easy to fix , requires that people take what they brought in.

This is horrible reality of human negligence, ego and empty mind. One one alternative, no go zone for people!

Leave nothing but footprints. All good hikers pack out ALL they pack in. 👁☯👁

Blessings NAT GEO please don't forget the oceans 🙏 YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND !

People who post pictures of themselves on the peak.. They've contributed to this mess. They shouldn't be praised, they should be shamed

360 videos have really gotten a lot better

These "360" videos are AMAZING.

My name is Muhamad Mirdan from Smk Bakti Nusa, Bogor Regency. In my opinion, climbers should not litter. Because if the climbers keep littering it can damage the surrounding ecosystem, its natural beauty, and the climbers' comfort.

Lack of respect and gratitude.

Geezus 😥 this is heart breaking

Mt. Everest needs a New Jersey style waste management union.

Thật là tuyệt vời khi xem video 360!

love this video, thank you

Its takes two months to climb Everest. Up to higher camps to acclimate and back to lower. Every climber should have to bring down 10 lbs of trash during acclimation climbs. They are going up for a day to acclimate then returning to a lower altitude returning to the lower camp. Usually three times at each stage. When the next lower camp climbers arrive in a higher camp to acclimate bring it back with them. rinse and repeat through all the higher camps until it works it way down the mountain. It would be cleaned up in one season. There ought to be some market for Everest trash souvenirs. Those villagers will sell about anything to tourists.

GREAT VIDEO I WASN'T AWARE THAT THIS WAS HAPPENING THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DESTINATION BECOMES POPULAR

Important issue, and the 360 degrees video is perfect for it because of the place.

Pack it in, pack it out. That's the responsible climbers mantra.

It's a shame of humanity that in frenzy of conquest we forget about nature

Having tourists slowly trek it out is a very reasonable solution. I'll happily lug a few kilos if I can.

This video is so cool, and yet disturbing!

Leave nothing behind but your footprints. Well, that and maybe "smiles on peoples faces" and memories.

At some point i'm going to figure out how to watch these with my Oculus.

Single Everest has this much trash imagine oceans seas

I love that quad camera, but is expensive like a car

So much effort spent on topics that don't matter. If the trash is such an issue ban tourism.

Subtitles: Voice of Ang Dorjee Sherpa (as is written on screen) Starts at 1:14 “50 years ago, Namche was not like it is now. In those days, we had Sherpa traditional houses with small windows, doors, and roofs made out of wood. In 1990, the number of tourists started increasing from around 8,000 to 10,000 tourists per year. Likewise, the amount of waste was also increased. We didn’t have any waste management then, so most places became littered. At that time Tyangboche Rinpoche and all local people thought that we had to take initiative to manage the waste, (and) that was how SPCC was born.” Stops at 2:20 Starts again at 3:06 “Starting this spring we decided to involve tourists in the conservation and waste management of this area. We are requesting each individual tourist take one kilogram of waste with them from Khumbu back to Kathmandu. Of the 50,000 visitors, if only 50% of them take the waste from Khumbu to Kathmandu, then 25,000 kilograms of waste will be taken back to Kathmandu. We are hoping for that.” Stops at 3:43 Starts again at 3:55 “I think Khumbu is a lot cleaner than in the past. But in the next 10 years, we would like to create a proper waste management system, with recycling, upcycling and minimizing waste at the source, which has been a big challenge in the last 10 years. For now, the mountains are still littered and we are still doing clean-up campaigns.” Video ends :)

Worst part is that some climbers would defend this for the sake of ''safety'' in regards to ascending and descending the peak.

The video is awesome.. .. 360..

I love Nat geo

Omg I can turn the camera round/up or down by moving my phone! This is the first time noticing I can do this!

With that many people it would be a miracle if there were no trash

Every where you look there is no end to laziness and greed. When are we gona grow up??? Sigh!

Wow I never know that . Nice video

Oh first time i saw the 360 vdo on RU-vid..

2019: The tallest mountain is Mount Everest. 2030: The tallest mountain in the world is A Big Pile of Plastics In The Ocean

We need to take Children to see this with their own eyes! 👀

What so unbelievable

It's interesting to hear the word garbage...may be the need for the word in Nepalese didn't exist before 1990?

Wow

Excellent 🇮🇳

Magnificent ingenious how we can pan An look around by our phones 📱 wow 😳 😁 this gives hope Good Job Godspeed Sincerely from LarryWhittington

Show respect! Take your trash with you.

Having every climber bring back trash is a great idea

This 360 iš hurting my 👀

Superb.

If climbers can't take their trash with them increase the rates to fund a waste management system and retrieval crew.

Did anyone else notice what's wrong in this video? Snow and glaciers. Even up on Everest it's looking dry.

Look up wow

Yo this is cool

This 3d thug really made me trip balls

Pwople needs to see this!

That sux. But I head it costs 10s of thousands per person to climb mt. Everest. If true they can afford to clean it up. 35,000 climbers a year. Do the math.

Ever heard of "Pack In, Pack Out"?! It is mandatory in many US wilderness areas... and WORKS!!! It sickens me that people are so selfish to think that "someone else will do it"! COME ON PEOPLE!!!

Ain’t no laws when you’re drinking claws.

I want to know why wasn't the face of the person who was being interviewed face shown.

Pack it in, PACK IT OUT!

Not surprised in the slightest.

$11000 for a permit, $50k for expedition, I mean what's more to say... The Nepalese can pick up a trash bag for those prices.

They should STOP ALL CLIMBS.AND CHARGE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT PUT THE TRASH THERE.

Make it a legal law ; anybody who climbs mount Everest needs to carry a certain amount of waste back down

Cool :)

The climbers should have the rule, Pack it in pack it out....period!

That 360’ degree camera is weird I thought I was filming it

People be like: I am going to triumph the Highest peak in the world and make it dirty on the way and the human population is proud of them too.😂😂😂😂

It's disgusting. If the rule here in the states is "You Pack it in You Pack it OUT" Why is this not mandatory there.. It's shameful.

these climbers ahould be ashamed of themselves. How sad!

Is this only audio?

Can we capture 360 type videos from mobile?🤔

Do climbers ever learn Leave No Trace???

I thought the rule was: "Leave no trace" So take back all your trash, don't destroy the area and most important respect the environment

Sad. The world needs to see the truth for what it is. Shame on those that destroy beautiful things

We do this. Is it any wonder earth is ready to shrug us off?!!

Fine the companies. That'll learn em!

interesting video

Why this video is in 3D?? Is there any way to fix it?

If you can pay a sherpa to hold your hand up the mountain then you can pay him to pack your trash down the mountain.

They should charge 1m$ on tourism

Why is humanity so filthy?

El humano el maximo depredador del mismo !😢

You know how much money there gov gets just from the hikers.. Why can't that help pay some people to clean it up.

why no picture!