Soldiers and Sherpas to Remove 10 Tons of Trash, Human Excrement, and 5 Dead Bodies From Mount Everest A massive cleanup operation has been launched by the Nepali Army on Mount Everest ahead of the annual climbing season. The campaign aims to collect tons of garbage and human remains from the world’s highest peak. 12 Nepali soldiers and 18 Sherpas have arrived at Everest Base Camp to start this year’s Mountain Cleanup Campaign. They will be retrieving an […] Climbing CragBrains | April 17, 2024 0 Comments
Beach Clean Up Gathers a Staggering 8,559 Pounds of Trash at Lake Tahoe, CA, After Independence Day Shocking pictures are coming from Lake Tahoe, California, where 4th of July holiday visitors have seemingly had a good time but decided to just leave all their trash behind. It is a sad sight to behold and looks more like pictures from a third-world country’s garbage dump. The blatant disregard for Mother Nature and the fragile environment is not a […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | July 5, 2023 2 Comments
Footage Reveals Shocking Amounts of Trash at Mt Everest Camp 4 Disheartening to see the accumulation of garbage at Camp IV on Mt #Everest (8848.86 m). It’s high time we address this issue with urgency and commitment. Let’s demand stricter regulations, enforcement of clean climbing practices, and effective waste management strategies. Video… pic.twitter.com/KGMlRmUuZk — Everest Today (@EverestToday) May 28, 2023 “Disheartening to see the accumulation of garbage at Camp IV on […] Industry News Tate Sundberg | May 30, 2023 0 Comments
Clean Up The Lake Dives Tahoe Basin’s “Dirtiest Mile” Yet | 3,000lbs Trash and 100 Tires in 1-Mile of Shoreline Nonprofit Clean Up The Lake (CUTL) has launched an expansive underwater clean-up in Fallen Leaf Lake revealing the Tahoe Basin’s dirtiest mile yet. In the history of this small but mighty and often overlooked lake, there has never been an underwater cleanup of this scale. Local canned cocktail company TIF’s Spiked Lemonade has kicked off the initial funding support followed […] SnowBrains | September 9, 2022 0 Comments
Clean Up The Lake Returns to Donner Lake, CA, Removing More Trash Than 2020 Clean Up the Lake (CUTL) is back under the surface of Donner Lake implementing a monitoring program as part of its five-year cleanup & litter prevention strategy. This monitoring project is a partnership between the organization and support from Martis Fund, Tahoe Mountain Resorts Foundation, Raley’s, Truckee Tahoe Lumber Company, and the Parsol Community Foundation. Since CUTL’s initial cleanup of […] SnowBrains | July 21, 2022 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe Trashed by July 4th Revellers | 3,450lbs of Litter Removed During Annual Cleanup More than three hundred volunteers, an eight-person dive team, and one beach-cleaning robot spread out across five Lake Tahoe beaches yesterday in a collaborative effort to remove leftovers from July 4th celebrations, as part of the League to Save Lake Tahoe’s annual Keep Tahoe Red, White and Blue Beach Cleanup. In total, the litter-fighting teams removed 3,450 pounds of trash from […] SnowBrains | July 7, 2022 1 Comment
Sculpture to be Created with Trash Removed From Lake Tahoe Will Take the Form of a Bald Eagle Holding a Trout SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (May 26, 2022) – After a heated competition, the Tahoe Fund and Clean Up The Lake announced today that the new art installation created from some of the 25,000+ pounds of litter removed from Lake Tahoe will take the form of a bald eagle holding a Lahontan cutthroat trout. Over 1,200 votes were cast in the […] SnowBrains | May 26, 2022 4 Comments
Clean Up the Lake Completes 72 Mile Clean-Up of Lake Tahoe, Recovering 25,281 Pounds of Trash The Clean Up The Lake SCUBA dive team that embarked on an extraordinary effort to recover submerged litter around all 72-miles of Lake Tahoe’s shoreline – that launched on May 14, 2021 – has officially completed the project. In total, the dive team collected 24,797 pieces of litter, bringing the total weight removed to 25,281 pounds. Related: Vail Resorts Donates […] SnowBrains | May 11, 2022 1 Comment