God’s will to warm the earth means that the ice is melting away from Everest (among a couple other places I can think of). The snowmelt means that tons of oxygen bottles and other trash that’s been dumped on the mountain over the years is being exposed. Twenty Nepalese climbers have been at cleaning up the mess, and the BBC pulled down some footage of them cleaning above 26,000 feet.

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