Int’l team cleans up garbage on Mt Annapurna base camp Kathmandu, October 6: A team led by the world’s eleventh and Korea’s third mountaineer to scale all 8,000-metre peaks, Han Wang-Yong cleaned up Mt Annapurna Base Camp. However, they could not bring the garbage to Kathmandu owing to Dashain rush in the aviation sector. The two-hundred kg of garbage containing bottles, cans, plastic amongst others, is still at the Jomsom airport. “The airport authorities did not permit us to bring the garbage to Kathmandu although we were willing to pay the extra charges. They, however, said they would carry passengers than wastes during such a busy time,” said Yong. He was speaking at a press meet organised by the Korean Treks and Expeditions here today. Representatives of the Korean Treks and Expeditions will strive to get the garbage from Jomsom airport once the festival season is over and hand them over to the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, he said. The team comprising 22 Koreans, two Japanese, a French mountaineer and 40 Sherpas completed their mission yesterday and returned to Kathmandu today. Yong said that the level of awareness concerning the protection of the environment has substantially increased among the mountaineers. Going by a Slovanian expedition team, there are seven dead bodies in a row lying on Camp II of Annapurna, he said. This clean-up campaign is part of Yong’s campaign to clean up all the fourteen 8,000 m peaks. His next mission is to get 8,000-metre summiteers from ten countries to collect garbage from Mt Everest up to Camp IV in spring next year. So far, he has already held clean-up expeditions on Mt Everest, Mt Manaslu, Mt Dhaulagiri and Mt K2.