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National Park After Dark

20: The World's Highest Graveyard. Sagarmatha National Park

National Park After Dark

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Pack all of your cold weather gear, trash bags, and oxygen tanks. We are heading to the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest in Sagarmatha National Park. In the past 80 years over 300 people have died on this mountain and many of their bodies have never been recovered.

While tourism to summit Mount Everest has brought money to the country of Nepal it has also brought a huge problem, litter. In a climate where survival is more important than being respectful to our planet, over 100,000 pounds of trash have been left ontop of Mount Everest, cantaminating their water resources. Today we will join a group of Nepali Sherpas who head out to summit Mount Everest to rid it's peaks of garbage but to also recover bodies, something that has never before been done. We will join them on this crueling 29 day adventure where each one of their lives is at risk every single day. With avalanches, freezing temperatures, and oxygen levels not compatible with survival, this team has a lot of obstacles to overcome if they are to make it out alive.

We love our National Parks and we know you do too but when you're out there, remember to enjoy the view but watch your back. Please take a moment to rate and subscribe from wherever you’re listening to NPAD! Become part of our Outsider family on Patreon to gain access to ad-free episode, bonus content and more. Follow our socials Instagram, Facebook , and Twitter. To share a Trail Tale, suggest a story, access merch and browse our book recommendations - head over to our website.

Sources: Documentary - Death Zone. CMM. Sky News. NBC News.The Guardian.

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Mount Everest is an icon of the earth. People travel to visit her from all over the world,

0:37.4

willing to rest their lives to see her summit. Mount Anir is an expert expeditioner, spend

0:43.1

years training for this track and thousands of dollars to do so. Some to only die in the

0:49.0

end. To them Mount Everest is something that needs to be conquered. Of all of these

0:55.0

mountaineers and lovers of the outdoors traveling to see her magnificent beauty, they have all

1:00.7

seemed to have forgotten one thing. Everest has become a personal trash can to these

1:05.8

Everest adventurers, littering her with climbing gear and bodies. This is having devastating

1:13.0

effects to the surrounding village's water systems. Should any one person have the right

1:19.1

to insist on leaving their body exposed, deteriorating and contaminating the water source of

1:26.0

over a billion other people, we are actively destroying our environment and with its demise

1:32.3

we will disappear as a species. We must evolve into better caretakers or we will turn the

1:38.6

planet into one giant death zone. Mother Goddess of Earth, we come not as conquerors but

1:46.2

as servants. Please forgive us for our past actions. Allow us to make amends.

1:53.5

That passage was a direct quote from the documentary Death Zone, Cleaning Mount Everest, a documentary

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