A climber from Seattle, disturbed by the amount of waste he saw being generated at Everest base camp (seen here at night), helped start the Mount Everest Biogas Project to turn that waste into energy. Below, porters carry waste away from base camp. Photograph by Alex Treadway, National Geographic
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