Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain and the world's highest garbage dump. A four-nation Asian team will clear the 8,850-metre high peak of mounds of oxygen cylinders, plastic, food cans,

Human activities are degrading mountain ranges worldwide

DEWAN SINGH AGE 95 VILLAGE LATA He remembers accompanying the last expedition to Nanda Devi peak, the country's second highest peak, which falls within the Nanda Devi Biosphere reserve (NDBR).

A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people s rights over forests.

Latest NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) satellite maps reveal that most of the

Sherpas in Nepal have collected 4.3 tonnes of garbage from Mount Everest. The garbage was dumped by climbers over the years and many have described the mountain as the world's highest dump site. "We

snowy alpine regions of Australia are shrinking because of global warming, claim scientists. "The alpines may disappear completely within the next 70 years,' opines John Morgan, a botanist at the