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[goodstuffhappenedtoday]

Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Sunita Kumari Chaudhary quietly weaves together lengths of rope, binding them with grass collected from the riverbank in her village of Dang. She skillfully shapes the materials into a jewelry box. As she weaves, she's instructing a small group of women how to work with the materials.

The ropes that Chaudhary and the others are using were once the lifeline for mountain climbers tackling Nepal's mountains and were then tossed. Government initiatives to clean up discarded materials on the mountains have ramped up since 2019. The waste, including the ropes, is now finding new life, transformed by skilled hands like Chaudhary's into items to sell such as boxes and table mats.

"At first, I wasn't aware that these ropes were collected from the mountains," Chaudhary says as she expertly bends and coils a blue-colored rope into an oval-shaped box. To her left, a container holds her tools – scissors and metal nails. Scattered on the floor are several mats she'd made, each a vibrant mix of golden yellow, purple and blue.

"Later, I learned that [the ropes were] collected during a mountain cleaning campaign. And people like me, who are far from the mountains but belong to the indigenous Tharu community, are using our traditional skills to transform this waste into something entirely new."

The Himalayan mountains are increasingly laden with mounting waste left by mountaineering activities over the years. There is no official data, but Nepal's Department of Tourism estimates that on Mt. Everest alone, there is nearly 140,000 tons of waste.

In 2019, the government launched an initiative led by the Nepal Army to clean up the mountains. Waste collected from the "Safa Himal Aviyan" (Clean Mountain Campaign) is either securely dumped if it's biodegradable or reused/recycled if it's not biodegradable.

Now some of that material is finding its way to Indigenous craftswomen like Chaudhary, thanks to an initiative led by Shilshila Acharya.

#mt. everest #himalayas #good stuff

[lisamarie-vee]

#life magazine #1960s #color photography #mt. everest

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Western history is full of the daring feats of explorers—Lewis and Clark in North America, John Cabot in Canada, Marco Polo along the Silk Road, and the list goes on.

But what about the explorers who set out with the same optimism as these navigational celebrities, only to face mysterious adversity?

Here are five explorers who had all the advantages of their more successful counterparts, only not to reach their goals and leave very little trace of their true fates.

Franklin’s failed Northwest Passage quest

British explorer Sir John Franklin left England in 1845 with 129 crew members and officers in search of the Northwest Passage, a shipping route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through Canada.

They were expertly equipped with iron-sheathed ships, three years of food and drink, even an early daguerreotype camera.

Instead of finding the passage, however, the ships became trapped in the Canadian Arctic’s most treacherous, ice-choked corner, north of King William Island.

Twenty-four men died by April 1848, including the captain.

The new captain, Francis Crozier, apparently abandoned the ships and set out with the remaining crew over the icy terrain in a desperate attempt to reach land.

Inuit hunters reported seeing bedraggled crewmen dragging sleds across the ice.

A few bodies have since been found, along with deserted campsites and bits and pieces, including silver dessert spoons and cotton shirt fragments.

In 2014, the wreck of Erebus was located, followed by the Terror in 2016.

While the wrecks themselves did not solve the mystery of what killed the men, the recovered bones of some men bore knife marks, suggesting the crew was fending off starvation by cannibalism.

Fawcett’s Lost City of Z

British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett already had undertaken several expeditions into the Amazon early in the 20th century when he came across an irresistible Portuguese document at the National Library of Brazil.

Detailing the discovery of a “large, hidden, and very ancient city, without inhabitants, discovered in the year 1753,” it told of grand ruins hidden in the Mato Grosso jungle.

Fawcett instantly decided to find the ruins, which he named the Lost City of Z.

After one failed attempt to find this awesome site, Fawcett, his son Jack, his son’s friend Raleigh Rimell, and two local laborers departed into the Brazilian wilderness in April 1925.

They wrote their last dispatch home on May 20.

Their Brazilian helpers had left them, Fawcett noted, but “You need have no fear of failure.”

No one ever heard from the party again.

Their disappearance became an obsession, with adventurers over the next decades trying to retrace their steps.

A reporter who went after Fawcett in 1930 also disappeared, as did a Swiss hunter and his search party.

Unconfirmed reports filtered out from the jungle of pale-skinned prisoners and their young children, but Fawcett and his party have never been found.

Mallory’s ill-fated Everest summit

The hopes of the world, or at least of the world’s mountain-climbing community, were pinned on George Leigh Mallory when he began his third attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in April 1924.

The handsome English climber had reached 27,235 feet, 1,800 feet below Everest’s peak, on a 1922 expedition.

This time, he intended to make it to the top.

On June 8, Mallory and his young companion, Sandy Irvine, set out on what they hoped would be the final sprint.

A fellow climber spotted them, two black spots, about 800 vertical feet below the summit. Then a snow squall closed in, and the climbers disappeared.

Mallory’s body was not recovered for 75 years.

In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory’s frozen corpse at 26,760 feet on the moun­tain’s north face. Irvine’s body has not been found.

Whether Mallory was on his way up to the sum­mit or was coming down from a successful ascent is unknown.

If he did reach the peak, he would have beaten Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountaineer who has been lauded for being the first man to reach the summit since his successful ascent in 1953.

But the world may never know.

Amelia Earhart’s strange disappearance

Amelia Earhart was world famous. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to fly from Hawaii to California.

Her round-the-world flight in 1937 was her final challenge.

Accompanying her when she took off from Miami on 1 June 1937 was an experienced navigator, Fred­erick Noonan.

The first legs of the 29,000-mile trip were ardu­ous, but the 2,556-mile Pacific leg from New Guinea to tiny Howland Island was the toughest of all.

From the air, Earhart radioed she couldn’t see the island and was running low on fuel. Then silence.

Recent forensic analysis suggest that bones found in 1940 on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro were those of the avia­tor.

Dimensions of Earhart’s body accord­ing to photos and clothing matched measurements recorded of the bones.

Unfortunately, the bones themselves were lost—so DNA testing cannot be done.

Researchers are still following every lead, from a skull fragment found in a museum to underwater fragments possibly from her plane, but so far, her disappearance remains a mystery.

Ambrose Bierce’s baffling Mexican quest

Ambrose Bierce isn’t the typical explorer. A Civil War veteran, he was also a journalist and poet, known for his cynical and misanthropic writings.

One such entry in his Devil’s Dictionary, for example, reads, “Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”

In 1913, with his family dead and his career waning, the 71-year-old Bierce headed out to visit Civil War battlefields, including Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga, and onward to Mexico.

“I am going to Mexico with a pretty definite purpose, which is not at all presently disclosable,” he wrote to his secretary.

He may have joined up with Pancho Villa’s rebel army and traveled with it to Chihuahua.

Reports from one of Villa’s battles told of an “old gringo” killed in the fighting.

Could that have been Bierce? Or did he live on in Mexico, California, France, or Brazil, where reports have placed him over the years?

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[nepaltrekadventure]

Everest Base Camp, 14 Days Itinerary, Cost

Do you want to trek to Everest Base Camp?

If So then Everest base camp trek, 14 days is one of the best itinerary for hike up to Everest base camp.

#mt. everest #everest #himalayas #endangered #nepal tour

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

From mountain climbers to mountain spirits, mountain temples to mountains in the sky, here’s my range of vintage mountains.

#everest #mountain climber #excelsior #mt. everest #vintage illustration #1930s

[letsgethaunted]

Episode Twenty-Eight: Haunted Mt. Everest Photodump

Image 01: Mt. Everest Image 02: Map of Everest Image 03: Yeti Footprint Image 04: “Rainbow Valley” illustration by Lily Padula Image 05: Green Boots Image 06: Video of Green Boots Image 07: David Sharp Image 08: George Mallory Image 09: Hannelore Schmatz Image 10: Beck Weathers

#Haunted Mt. Everest #Let's Get Haunted #Mt. Everest #Yeti Footprint #Rainbow Valley #Instagram

[pratignya18]

Tread on a turd.

Have you ever been camping? “There’s no Wi-fi in the mountains, but you’ll find no better connection” Anonymous April 2012, Everest Base Camp. The credit for this trip goes to my BIL. He decided to celebrate in the mountains, and I just tagged along for the ride. And what a ride that was! The preparation for this trek started a year earlier for everyone else. But I chose to opt out of the trek…

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#acclimate #acclimatization #camping #dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1923 #EBC #Everest base camp #hiking #Mount Everest #mountains #Mt. Everest #trekking #walk in the wild

[pauldelancey]

Paul's Awesome English Dictionary - Today's Word - Zink

How many times has this happened to you? You climbed Mt. Everest just using toothpicks only to learn that no one saw you reach the top. All the news crews and everybody in the world watched the most exciting ever World Cup final in soccer. You took closeted yourself in your room for 23 years to order 526,123 by height and memorize every governor of every state since the foundation of the American…

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#American #awesome #dictionary #English #good food #history #history of the world #laurel wreath #Mt. Everest #Paul&039;s Awesome English Dictionary #Republic #soccer #toothpicks #World Cup #zink

[faintingviolet]

The Third Pole (CBR15 #29)

Many moons ago I read Into Thin Air and it sparked a Mt. Everest fascination in me. I can’t say that before 2015 I thought overmuch about the highest peak in the world, and I’m someone who enjoys a good walk but has zero intention of ever tackling anything like mountain climbing. But… I have been devouring content about the mountain and other thirteen 8,000-meter peaks ever since. So, when I…

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#expeditions #exploration #history #memoir #Mt. Everest #non-fiction

[gooseball]

#smartmonkey #lazy #mt. everest #unmotivated #uninspired #too funny #funny stuff #funny #gooseballs.com #good advice #benefits of laziness #smart monkey

[lisamarie-vee]

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[beta-6]

Just Breathe

Just Breathe Recently, there have been many discoveries concerning Breathing practices as related to well-being.  I wanted to post some information that I’ve gathered which presents itself as fascinating.  After reading the book “breath” by James Nestor, it has become self evident that there is more to it than we understand on the surface.  With a wide array of conclusive results relating to…

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#ancient practice #asthma #breathe #chronic illness #conciousness #determination #hope #ice man #iceman #life #love #mana #meditate #meditation #mind #mt. everest #prana #sanskrit #wellbeing #wim hoff

[alenasbdesign]

Happy Laxmi Puja, Nepal!

#Nepal #Kathmandu #Himalaya #mountains #travel #geography #mug #coffee #coffee mug #tea #tea time #breakfast #good morning #mt. everest

[nepaltrekadventure]

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour with Landing Flight, the chopper ride from Kathmandu allows for a 3-4 hour excursion of Mount Everest in a nice morning, day return trip. This is a landing at the base camp of the Kala Patthar Summit viewpoint, which is located above 5460 meters.

#everest #himalayas #nepal tour #tourists #mt. everest

[rjzimmerman]

This video tells the story. It’s about five minutes long. What I appreciate about it is that it lets me to quickie climb of Mt. Everest along with the scientists, and then I get to learn what the scientists are finding. Do a hike, and then learn. We learn that scientists have discovered evidence of 187 taxonomic orders from just 20 liters of water collected in one of the Earth’s harshest environments

#Mt. Everest #biodiversity