The exponential increase in pollution 
and garbage dumps on the higher reaches of Himalayas is an outcome of the increased tourist traffic. In Mount Everest, for example, even before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first successfully scaled the world’s highest peak in 1953, there were heaps of flesh, plastic, parachutes, food packets, empty cylinders splattered in this death-zone. Studies show that about 615 tonnes of waste, including poisonous elements, have been spotted across and around Mount Everest. Against this, the bi-annual clean-up program by the Nepal government could manage to get rid of merely 1,700 kg in 1996 and 2,450 kg in 2001.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
and garbage dumps on the higher reaches of Himalayas is an outcome of the increased tourist traffic. In Mount Everest, for example, even before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first successfully scaled the world’s highest peak in 1953, there were heaps of flesh, plastic, parachutes, food packets, empty cylinders splattered in this death-zone. Studies show that about 615 tonnes of waste, including poisonous elements, have been spotted across and around Mount Everest. Against this, the bi-annual clean-up program by the Nepal government could manage to get rid of merely 1,700 kg in 1996 and 2,450 kg in 2001.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
