Reader comments: Sherpa climbs Everest in order to help save it

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Craig | 10:48 a.m. June 26, 2008
Oh, now Global warming is being caused by garbage on Mt Everest?
Sure...........................
Anonymous | 12:08 p.m. June 26, 2008
no. Garbage is garbage. Trash is trash. Pollution is pollution.

While an energy bar on Everest might not be causing global warming, pollution of other kinds is (according to some).

If Sherpa wants to clean up his mountain as a lesson in environmental stewardship, I have no problem with that.

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Apa Sherpa sits at the summit of Mount Everest in May 2006. He has climbed the mountain a record 18 times. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Apa Sherpa sits at the summit of Mount Everest in May 2006. He has climbed the mountain a record 18 times.
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