Four bodies found amid two tons of trash on Mount Everest

Waste collected from Mount Everest.
(Image credit: PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

While sorting through more than 12 tons of trash, a Mount Everest cleaning crew also discovered four human corpses, reports HuffPost.

The bodies were found during a 45-day period of cleaning, and they were taken to a Kathmandu hospital for identification.

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Marianne Dodson

Marianne is The Week’s Social Media Editor. She is a native Tennessean and recent graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism and political science. Marianne has previously written for The Daily Beast, The Crime Report, and The Moroccan Times.