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Nepali sherpas recently collected almost five tons of garbage from Mount Everest dumped by climbers over the years, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Ang Phurba Sherpa told Reuters that more than two tons of paper bags, old tents, plastic and clothes had been burned or buried below the mountain s base camp. Another couple of tons of tent poles, aluminum ladders, empty oxygen bottles and plastic cans were also cleared, Reuters said. The Nepal Mountaineering Association recently launched a drive to clean up the 29,035-foot mountain, which some climbers call the world s highest garbage site. We have paid up to seven dollars to the sherpas for bringing down each kilo of garbage from the mountain, Ang Phurba Sherpa told Reuters.