According to statistics from the Himalayan Database, more than 300 climbers and guides have died since human beings tried to climb Mount Everest in 1921.
Xinhua News Agency, Kathmandu, June 12 (reporter Zhou Shengping) more and more people began to try to challenge climbing to the top of the world, some of whom slept in the snow mountain due to various accidents. In an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency on the 11th, Santa, chairman of Nepal Mountaineering Association, called on the government to introduce measures to deal with the problem of carrying remains.
According to the statistics of Himalayan Database, more than 300 climbers and guides have died since human beings tried to climb Mount Everest in 1921. How many remains remain on Mount Everest? Santa said that the media reported about 100, which is only an estimate. No matter whether it is official or private, there is no accurate statistics.
During the Spring Festival climbing season this year, 8 people were killed and one person was missing on the southern slope of Mount Everest. Santa introduced that the information reported to him by Nepal tourism bureau was that 6 bodies had been transported, and the other two were temporarily unable to carry them due to geographical location, there is no more information about the missing.
In April this year, the Nepalese government launched an unprecedented cleaning campaign in conjunction with the army, local government and other units. The 45-day cleaning of Mount Everest cleared nearly 11 tons of all kinds of garbage and transported back four remains that had been kept on the mountain for a long time.
Santa introduced that compared with cleaning up all kinds of garbage left by climbers, it is not difficult to transport the remains down the mountain. First of all, most of the remains are located at an altitude of 7000 or 8000 meters. These places are severe climatic condition, so it is very difficult to dig out the remains. Secondly, this job requires a highly competent Sherpa team, but there is a shortage of staff at present. Third, the cost is very expensive.
For this reason, Santa suggested that the Nepalese government should issue a policy to set up a fund to deposit part of the mountaineer’s insurance premium into the fund-not all of it to the beneficiaries designated in the will, it is used for all kinds of work, including the body handling of climbers.
Santa said frankly that the families of some victims only care about the high insurance premium and do not care about the handling of the remains, so they found reasons to say that the dead loved mountaineering and were willing to stay in the snow mountain.
Nepal Mountaineering Association was founded in 1973 and is a national non-profit organization.