To solve the problem of pollution on Everest, Marion created the Clean

Everest project with an agency affiliated with the Mountain Guide School in
Lhasa. In 2016, Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy, a French mountain guide who has been
living in Tibet for 18 years, initiated an expedition to clean up the northeast route to the
top of Mount Everest. Supported by the Chinese government and local mountains
guides, the expedition is now an annual event with local yak owners taking waste from
the collection points to base camp. Together they brought down 10 tons of waste
and created a waste management system. Clean Everest is an annual initiative
involving 50 Tibetan mountain guides, 100 Chinese and foreign volunteers’ climbers,
collecting tons of high altitude waste and 50 yaks carrying them down.

The clean mountain charter was created in cooperation with Lhasa Mountain School,

following first 100% Tibetan expedition in 2013. It is composed of 4 parts including
Protection of Water, Waste treatment, Protection of Fauna and flora and Education.

Start of The event

With the Tibetan guides of Tibet Yarlha Shampo, Marion launches the first expedition to
clean the Northern face of Mount Everest. They start by clearing the slopes of the
garbage accumulated during the previous decades. That first year, they only managed
to collect one ton out of the ten. This waste collected with great difficulty cannot be
brought down by the yaks: the caravans have not arrived as planned, everything is
blocked. Marion and the group of fifty Tibetan guides are discouraged. They feel alone.

The success of Clean Everest

In four years, thanks to the Clean Everest expeditions, almost all of the ten tons of
waste accumulated during past expeditions has been brought down in bags and on the
backs of yaks. The mountain has regained its purity.

The populations of the mountains are today sensitised and the local authorities support
the project. A waste management system has been set up. They are committed to
replicating this model, particularly for other 8,000-meter peaks.

Some famous mountains

1. Mount Fuji- Honshu Island, Japan

 Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1860.

2.  Mount Kilimanjaro-Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

In 1889, German geographer Hans Meyer and Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller 
3. K2- Karakoram Range, Pakistan/China

 31 July 1954. the two climbers who reached the summit were Lino Lacedelli and Achille

Compagnoni.
4. Denali- Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States

 On June 7, 1913 four men -- Walter Harper, Harry

Karstens, Hudson Stuck, and Robert Tatum 
5. Annapurna-Himalayas, Nepal
June 3, 1950, by French mountaineers Maurice Herzog
and Louis Lachenal.
6. Table Mountain- Table Mountain National Park,
Cape Town, South Africa

Admiral Antonio de Saldanha on 1503