Negara China Tutup Everest Base Camp kepada Pelancong

lee_sakura · Post time 17-2-2019 01:11 AM

Edited by lee_sakura at 17-2-2019 01:12 AM

Info ni aku dapat dari BBC News semalam...btw trek Everest Base Camp baik dr China atau Nepal mmg penuh dgn sampah sarap dan najis manusia...aku pnh pegi EBC ikot nepal, mmg climber sama selamba je berak kencing atas trek, baik lelaki atau pon perempuan...itu blom lg najis haiwan mcm yak, kuda dan keldai...kat bwh ni news yg dikeluarkan semalam

China has closed the base camp on its side of Mount Everestto visitors who don't have climbing permits.

Authorities have resorted to the unusual move to deal withthe mounting waste problem at the site.

The ban means tourists can only go as far as a monasteryslightly below the 5,200m (17,060ft) base camp level.

More people visit the mountain from the southern side inNepal, but over the past years numbers have been rising steadily on the Chineseside as well.

The Chinese base camp, located in Tibet, is popular as it isaccessible by car - whereas the Nepalese camp can only be reached by a hike ofalmost two weeks.

The world's highest peak has been struggling with escalatinglevels of rubbish for years, as the number of visitors rises.

The Chinese Mountaineering Association says 40,000 visitedits base camp in 2015, the most recent year with figures. A record 45,000visited Nepal's base camp in 2016-7 according to Nepal's Ministry of Forestsand Soil Conservation.

Ordinary tourists will only be banned from areas aboveRongbuk monastery, which is around 5,000m above sea level, according to China'sstate news agency Xinhua.

Mountaineers who have a permit to climb the 8,848m peak willstill be allowed to use the higher camp.

In January, authorities announced that they would limit thenumber of climbing permits each year to 300.

On Chinese social media, claims have spread in recent daysthat its base camp will be permanently closed to tourists - but Xinhua citedofficials denying that.

The official announcement about the closure was made inDecember, on the website of the Tibetan authorities.

It stated that three clean-up operations last spring hadcollected eight tonnes of waste, including human faeces and mountaineeringequipment climbers had left behind.

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This year's clean-up efforts will also try to remove thebodies of mountaineers who have died in the so-called death zone above 8,000m,where the air is too thin to sustain life for long.

Due to the cold and high altitude, these bodies often remainon the mountain for years or even decades.