What is the SPCC anyway?
The SPCC (Sagamartha Pollution Control Committee) is doing a great job. In fact we have been trekking along with some of their supervisors who are checking the cleanliness of all the base camps and getting a handle on what the upper Khumbu looks like as this season begins. Some of these men were at Louche with us, others left to trek over the Cho La. A group will visit Everest Base Camp for a pre season inspection. The Sagamartha Pollution Control Committee is the Nepalese NGO that your “Environmental Expedition” did not want you to know about. Cleaning up Everest Base Camp was the goal of numerous foreign expeditions to Nepal during the 1990’s and beyond. An untold amount of foreign currency was raised for these expeditions to come to Everest to climb. Each of these teams had to deposit $4000 which was refunded only after SPCC monitors confirmed that they had removed all their rubbish and solid human waste from Base Camp and another $2000 that was returned after they produced an expor
