Everest climbers told bring 8kg of rubbish home

Climbers scaling Mount Everest will have to bring back eight kilograms (17.6 pounds) of rubbish under new rules designed to clean up the world’s highest peak, a Nepalese official said.

The rule, one of several new measures for mountaineering in the Himalayan nation, will apply to climbers ascending beyond Everest’s base camp from April onwards, said tourism ministry official Madhusudan Burlakoti.

“The government has decided, in order to clean up Mount Everest, each member of an expedition must bring back at least eight kilos of garbage, apart from their own trash,” he said.