Last Member of 1st Team to Top Everest Says Mountain Crowded, Dirty — VOA Learning English
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The only living member of the team to first climb to the top of Mount Everest says the mountain is too crowded and polluted.
Ninety-one-year-old Kanchha Sherpa was part of the team that helped New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reach the peak of the world’s tallest mountain on May 29, 1953.
Kanchha recently spoke with the Associated Press, saying the 8,849-meter tall mountain must be respected. “They should not be dirtying the mountain. It is our biggest god and they should not be dirtying the gods,” he said.
Since 1953, the mountain has been climbed thousands of times, and it gets more crowded every year.
During the spring climbing season in 2023, 667 climbers got to…
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