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The Dangers Of Mount Everest

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Mount Everest is a destination that has been a struggle and an adventure to climb for thrill-seekers. By the middle of the year 2013, a total of nearly four thousand people had reached the mountain’s summit. Yet one day, Mount Everest may become a mountain of garbage. Climbers who climb Mount Everest often leave behind their unneeded items, such as food containers, empty oxygen canisters, and even human waste. All the debris left on the mountain stays frozen in place, due to the extreme weather conditions on Mount Everest. One day, Mount Everest may be fully polluted with climbers’ litter, where climbers must scale Mount Everest while stepping in garbage, instead of snow.

On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Hillary was very humble and did not consider this feat his most important achievement. Sir Edmund Hillary was deeply concerned about the environment and cared for the future of Mount Everest. For example, “Hillary was also deeply concerned about the environment. He helped establish reforestation programs in Nepal. He also demanded that mountain climbers clean up the garbage that often got left behind on Mount Everest-materials like used oxygen bottles, which climbers would discard because of their weight” (“Source #1: The World’s Highest Mountain”/paragraph 7). This proves that climbers are leaving a negative impact on Mount Everest. The reader can infer that Sir Edmund Hillary would not

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