Directions

Past the crashed helicopter, turn left at the pile of frozen faeces and if you come to the body, then you've gone too far.

When one thinks about the top of Mount Everest, one usually imagines thin air, frostbite and sherpas. What one does not think of is discarded tents, oxygen cannisters and a couple of abandoned bodies. Amazingly, of the 300 people who have died on Mount Everest, only 150 bodies have been retrieved. Eeeck!

There has been a lot of media coverage during the week about the Eco Everest Mission to clean the top of Chomolungma. A team of 20 climbers have been dispatched to bring town over 2 tonnes of rubbish and a body. Tidy towns anyone?