Mount everest camp will take years to clean says local sherpa

Since the peak was first conquered in 1953, thousands of climbers have scaled it and many have left behind more than just their footprints.

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00:00Sherpas on Mount Everest say it will take years to clean up garbage littering the highest

00:06camp on the world's tallest mountain.

00:09A team worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest's

00:14peak.

00:15Since the mountain was first conquered in 1953, thousands of climbers have scaled it

00:39and many have left behind more than just their footprints.

00:45The Nepalese government funded teams of soldiers and Sherpas who removed 11 tons of garbage,

00:51four dead bodies and a skeleton from the mountain.