Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest in May of 1953, the British had been trying to climb it for 31 years. However, the summit was reached for the irst time by a Nepalese and New Zealand citizen, with both working together to reach the top of the world.

For poor old Mount Everest, it has been all downhill since then. With the passing of years, more and more people have taken to climbing the mountain. Tens of thousands have had a go, with some not being able to go past one of the interim camps on the way up the mountain.

They have left many ‘gifts’ – indeed hundreds  of tonnes of them – on the mountain.  Material waste. and human excrement of all kinds. Mount Everest has been turned from the centrepiece of a beautiful, pristine wilderness into one of the most notorious of the world’s  rubbish dumps.