Yeti Airlines-Tara Air to airlift waste

Yeti Airlines – in partnership with the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality,Himalaya Club Lukla, Blue Waste to Value and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Nepal – has collected 45 tonnes of recyclable waste from the Mt Everest region so far.
The process of airlifting non-biodegradable waste produced by trekking activities in the Everest region was initiated from March 17, 2018.
Yeti Airlines set the ambitious target of flying out 100 tonnes of recyclable waste from the Everest region in 2018 as part of its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly relating to biodiversity conservation (SDG 15) and climate change (SDG13). The company plans to airlift a further 30 tonnes of recyclable waste to Kathmandu in September.
The partners of the Everest Clean Up Campaign – SPCC, a local environmental conservation organisation, the Himalaya Club Lukla and the Khumbhu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality – worked on the collection of non-biodegradable waste in the Everest region. The accumulated debris was then airlifted to Kathmandu from Lukla’sTenzing- Hillary airport.
Blue Waste to Value received the recyclable waste from Yeti’s sister organisation, Tara Air, at Kathmandu airport. The rubbish comprises mainly of empty beer and food cans, and discarded mountaineering and trekking equipment, all of which are eventually recycled into metal vessels, cooking utensils and construction materials, according to a press note issued by the Yeti Airlines.

Two Nepali summiters eye world records

Two Nepali summiters Lhakpa Sherpa and Mingma Sherpa are on their way to create history as top summiters in the world.
"I am flying to Pakistan on Friday to scale two peaks above 8,000 metres," said Mingma (32), who has already scaled 11 of the 14 peaks above 8,000 metres. He is planning to scale Nanga Parbat (8,125 metres) and Gasherbrum-I also called K5 (8,080 metres in Pakistan before returning to scale the last among the 14, Mt Kanchanchanjunga, in his list.
The eight-thousanders' club has only 24 members till date and Mingma has only three peaks to scale to be the member of the prestigious club. The eight-thousanders are fourteen independent mountains on earth that are more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) high above sea level. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia.
Out of the 14 eight-thousanders, eight — Mt Everest (8,848m), Kanchenjunga (8,598m), Makalu (8,485m), Lhotse (8,501m), Cho Oyu (8,188m), Dhaulagiri (8,137m), Manaslu (8163m) and Annapurna (8,091m) — are in Nepal.
Similarly, after four years' rest from her career as a mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa — the only Nepali woman to scale Mt Everest six times from 2000 to 2006 — is headed for another record. She will be attempting to scale Mt K2 (8,611 metres) — the second highest peak in the world. She has been on top of the world — Mt Everest — for the sixth time in 2006. She will be the first Nepali woman and the third woman climber in the world to summit the Mt K2, considered very dangerous to climb.
Till date, 3,410 people have scaled the Mt Everest for 5,060 times after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scaled the peak for the first time in 1953.