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Khumbu Icefall Route Construction (Spring 2021) Update
02 Mar 2021
As the spring climbing season is approaching, our icefall doctors’ team left for Everest Base Camp today from our head office at Namche. The team will spend three months at Everest Base Camp t...
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Request to participate in the "Carry Me Back" project
14 Oct 2019
Please participate in our “Carry Me Back” project - a great way to reduce your carbon footprint while trekking in the foothills of Mt. Everest. The main aim of the project is to tra...
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"Mt. Everest Cleanup Campaign 2019" Concluded
05 Jun 2019
The “Mt. Everest Clean-Up Campaign 2019” is the first joint cleanup initiative made to retrieve discarded garbage and dead bodies from Mt. Everest. Themed “Clean Our Pride”, th...
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'Mt. Ama Dablam Cleanup Campaign 2018' concluded
28 Nov 2018 , Mt. Ama Dablam, Khumbu Region, Nepal
The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) and Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality (KPRM) successfully conducted the first cleanup campaign on Mt. Ama Dablam. Ama Dablam is one of the most s...
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SPCC's Trekking Waste Infrastructure project selected for funding by ATCF
28 Sep 2018 , Published in ATCF Newsletter
We are very excited to share that Adventure Travel Conservation Fund has selected our project “Trekking Waste Infrastructure in Nepal” under their Adopt a Project Program for funding. We s...
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More than 32,000 kg waste collected from Everest
01 Jul 2018 , Published by The Himalayan Times
With the end of the year’s main climbing season, mountaineers generated over thirty tonnes of garbage below Camp II on Mt Everest, an official at Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee said. REA...
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Wastes collected from Everest in Spring 2018 climbing season
20 Jun 2018 , Everest Base Camp
In this spring climbing season, SPCC collected a total of 17,678 kgs of garbage generated by climbers from Mt. Everest. Our garbage management staffs have brought down 13,501 kgs of burnable garbage f...
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I climbed Everest expecting a rubbish dump but what I found surprised me
06 Jun 2018 , Published in The Guardian
The country lanes of Great Britain have more rubbish than the trail to base camp; despite the 100,000 footfall I saw one of the cleanest, tidiest wilderness trials I have encountered. Base camp,...
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World Environment Day celebrated at Khumjung School
05 Jun 2018 , Khumjung School
Every year SPCC and SNP BZMC supports the Khumbu Eco Club Network to celebrate World Environment Day at various schools of Khumbu. This year's World Environment Day was celebrated at Khumjung High Sch...
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Annual General Meeting of SPCC held at Namche
20 Mar 2018 , Namche Bazaar
The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) 's Annual General Meeting was successfully held at Namche Gonpa at Namche on Monday, March 19, 2018. The AGM was attended by Board members, general me...