It has one of the coolest titles I’ve ever read:  Extreme Everest Expedition 2010.  However, while it sounds cool, it’s actually going to be a lot of hard work.  Climbing Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, is tough.  Climbing Mount Everest and doing some spring cleaning at 29,000 feet is even tougher, but that’s what the Extreme Everest Expedition is all about.  The goal is to climb up Everest and come back down with 2,000 kilograms (or about 4,400 pounds) worth of trash from the so-called death zone, including some junk that dates back to Sir Edmund Hillary’s 1953 expedition.

The expedition of 20 Nepalese climbers is being guided by Namgyal Sherpa, a 30-year-old Sherpa who has climbed Everest 7 times in various expeditions.  Said Sherpa of the cleaning effort, “This is the first time we are cleaning at that height, the death zone.  It is very difficult and dangerous,” Sherpa said of the climb into what is called the world’s highest garbage dump due to the trash strewn there.  “The garbage was buried under snow in the past.  But now it has come out on the surface because of the melting of snow due to global warming.”

The good thing about this trip is that it’ll make Jordan Romero’s record-breaking climb that much nicer for him.  Plus maybe they can find that ring I lost up there amongst the trash.

Tags: Mount Everest, death zone, spring cleaning a mountain, recovering dead bodies from Mount Everest, environmentalism, Nepal, Namgyal Sherpa, Extreme Everest Expedition 2010, spring cleaning, garbage clean-up on Everest

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