I’m going to focus on mountaineering and the environment. Particularly using Mount Everest as a case study and how it received its nickname “the world highest junkyard.” I’d like to not go down the dark hole of being pessimistic and negative, but rather make it as positive and optimistic as I can focusing on mountaineering expedition clean-up crews and who are the people on these clean-up crews. They have to be mountaineers also.

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