Sherpa says Everest is a dirty place

A Nepalese Sherpa who has scaled Mount Everest a record nineteen times has revealed the world’s highest mountain is littered with debris from previous expeditions.

He has also warned that glaciers are melting because of global warming, causing large lakes which are likely to burst and flood villages in the foothills.

Climate change making Everest ascent harder - sherpa | South Asia | Reuters

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A Nepali sherpa who holds the world record for climbing Mount Everest said on Monday rising temperatures were melting snow and turning the slopes barren, making it even harder to scale the world's tallest peak.

Apa Sherpa, back from his 19th successful ascent of Everest last week, said a snow trail along the route to the peak was now just a stretch of bare rocks, as climate change pushed up snowlines and shrank glaciers.

"This makes climbing the mountain difficult because walking on naked rocks wearing crampons is hard," Sherpa, 49, told Reuters after his expedition during which he carried a banner that read: "Stop Climate Change; Let the Himalayas Live!"

Inconvenient truth not mentioned in the articles above: Appa's expedition caught in avalanche, one feared dead

Kathmandu (PTI) The Eco Everest Expedition team led by ace climber Appa Sherpa was hit by an avalanche, officials have said.

A high altitude climber Lapka Nuru Sherpa (32), one of the members of the team, has gone missing after being hit by the avalanche at Khumbu icefall, located at 5,800 meters above the sea level on Thursday afternoon, Kaju Baral, a staff member of Asian Trekking Pvt Ltd, who organised the expedition said.