Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: It's often called the “world’s highest garbage dump.” :: Mount Everest, Nepal Some estimate 50 metric tonnes of trash ...

Pack in what you pack out. It’s been the outdoor code for campers for decades as people have tried to keep campsites clean across America. The same guideline doesn’t apply to most extreme mountain ...

The world’s tallest mountain is drowning. Not in water, though the ice is certainly melting. Mount Everest is drowning in a slow, multi-colored drip of human debris. At over 8,000 meters (26,200 feet) ...

In March, 17-year-old Bianca Adler and her dad set off from Melbourne, Australia, for the ultimate adventure: climbing Mt. Everest. She wasn’t new to extreme heights. Adler had already conquered peaks ...

More people are climbing Mount Everest than ever before and many of them are making a mess of it. Tenzi Sherpa, an Everest trekking guide, posted a video of a garbage-strewn camp on the mountain ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Six decades after the first conquest of the world's highest peak, tons of rubbish and human waste abandoned by hundreds of Mount Everest climbers is starting to raise a stink.

Flying drones were playing a valuable role on Mount Everest this spring. So why did the Nepali government ground them?