STEVE BRIGHT
We Kill The Things We Love

As I climbed the Khumbu Icefall from Everest Base Camp up to Camp Two, at 6,500m above seal level, I was blown away by the natural beauty of the mountain, the pure white of the ice and snow, and the sheer scale and majesty of the landscape around me.
So I was shocked when I arrived at Camp Two and found it absolutely littered with rubbish. From large dumps of equipment and tents left behind from previous years’ exhibitions in the hope that they could re-use it in the future to endless bits of plastic waste and packaging discarded on the ground and mixed up amongst the rocks, most distressingly some was well on the way to gradually breaking down into microplastics, to travel slowly down the icefall, continue down the Khumbu glacier into the river, and end up in the sea decades from now.
It’s such a tragedy that, in their single minded pursuit of the goal of a successful summit, climbers and the companies that support them allow this stunning wilderness to be tarnished and polluted.

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