Nepali army set out to clean up Annapurna

POKHARA: The Nepalese army is going to clean the Annapurna mountain this year.

As part of the ‘Swachh Himal Campaign’, a team of ten army personnel is on their way to Annapurna.

Deepak Kumar Baniyan, commander of the Nepal Army’s West Wing in Bijaypur, stated that a team has been dispatched to collect garbage that has accumulated in the mountains and base camps.

Garbage has accumulated in the Himalayan region as a result of human activity. As a result, pollution in the environment has increased.

He stated that the clean mountain campaign, which began with Everest, will be carried out in all mountains above 8000 meters.

Serious environmental consequences can be avoided if the garbage accumulated in Nepal’s mountains is managed in a timely manner.

The army tried to protect it from that effect,’ he said.

Earlier, the army has already cleared Dhawalagiri in 2021 and Manaslu in 2022.

Kishore Adhikari, the chief soldier of the Nepalese Army, said that since the 1930s, the practice activities performed by climbers before climbing Mt. Everest were concentrated in various mountains above 8,000 meters.

According to the army, Annapurna was chosen this year after Sherpas suggested that the number of Annapurna climbers would increase and garbage would increase in the mountains.

According to reports, the campaign will collect approximately 35 tons of garbage from the mountains of Everest, Lhotse, Barunche, and Annapurna. Since 2019, the army has been conducting a clean mountain campaign. The Annapurna Cleanup Team is leaving the Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality.

Dhanraj Acharya, the head of the Metropolitan Corporation, bid farewell by handing over the flag of the metropolitan to the coordinator of the flag cleaning team, Bhim Bahadur Bhujel.

Acharya said that the Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality is with us in the cleaning campaign of the mountains that are connected to the identity of Pokhara.