How do mountaineers constitute a threat to Mount Everest?
(UPSC geography optional paper 1 2019, 10 Marks)
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Answer:
Mount Everest is the highest point on earth, it is about 8850 meters high from sea level.
Location:
The following way Mountaineers constitute a threat to Mount Everest:
Positive steps to deal with these problems:Location:
- It is located in the Himalayan range and located between Nepal and Tibet.
- Everest is composed of multiple layers of rocks.
- Lower elevation: it is comprised of Metamorphic schist, topped with Igneous granite.
- Higher elevation made up the sedimentary rock of marine origin.
- Breathable oxygen is about one-third of sea-level oxygen.
- Extreme cold, life form plant, and the animal do not found.
The following way Mountaineers constitute a threat to Mount Everest:
- Mountaineers carry Tents, Climbing equipment, gas cylinder with them to reach Mount Everest, and they left all these requirements at mount Everest.
- Human excreta also major threads to Mount Everest.
- As of now, a hundred tonnes of wastes comprise of tents and cloths, climbing equipment, empty gas cylinders, human excreta, etc are accumulated in the summit. Due to global warming, wastes are now exposing.
- Nepal charge 4000$ per team as rubbish deposits fee, this would be refunded if 8 kg of waste per person would be brought down.
- Planning to make a biogas plant near Everest base.
- Rubbish collection team would be formed.
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