Record-holding Sherpa guide concerned about rubbish on Everest’s higher camps

Renowned Sherpa mountain guide Kami Rita, left, returning from Mount Everest after his record 30th successful ascent, arrives at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Friday (Niranjan Shrestha/AP)

One of the greatest Mount Everest guides has expressed concerns about the peak’s growing piles of rubbish, as he was honoured by his government to mark Everest Day.

Sherpa guide Kami Rita, who has scaled Mount Everest a record 30 times, was honoured by Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in Kathmandu on the anniversary of the first successful summit by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.