World team embarks on Mount Annapurna cleaning campaign Kathmandu, September 25: A team of 68 people, including 26 foreigners, today headed for Mt Annapurna base camp for a cleaning campaign at the world’s 10th highest peak. The team, led by noted South Korean mountaineer Wang-Yong Han, plans to spend 12 days collecting garbage and litter at the base camp and in the surroundings of the 8091 metre-high Annapurna peak in the Himalayan range in Kaski district. The Hans’ Mt Annapurna Cleaning Campaign 2005, which comprises 23 South Koreans, two Japanese and a Frenchman as well as 43 Nepali Sherpas, is a part of an ambitious campaign to clean all 14 Himalayan peaks above 8,000 metres. This is the fifth cleaning campaign in the 8,000m-plus Himalayan peaks. Han, who is the third Korean and the 11th mountaineer in the world to scale all 14 peaks above 8,000 metres, has already led cleaning campaigns to Mt Everest, Mt Manaslu and Mt Dhaulagiri as well as Mt K2. He launched the mission of cleaning up all 14 peaks from 2003 after having scaled all these peaks.