300 deceased mountaineers exposed as ice melts on Mount Everest; Nepal's mountain clean-up campaign retrieves five bodies.
As ice melts on Mount Everest, climate change exposes hundreds of deceased mountaineers, with 300 deaths since the 1920s. This year, a rescue team retrieved five bodies as part of Nepal's mountain clean-up campaign, working to retrieve corpses and reduce environmental impact. The task is dangerous, as rescuers must chip away ice with axes and sometimes use boiling water to release frozen bodies.
June 27, 2024
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