Four bodies found amid two tons of trash on Mount Everest

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Waste collected from Mount Everest.
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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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While cleaners successfully removed more than 24,000 pounds of trash during the cleaning campaign, they say there is still more to be collected.

Marianne Dodson
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.