Huge piles of waste that have turned the Himalayas into a gigantic rubbish dump are exposed

Mountaineers have turned the Himalayas into a ‘gigantic rubbish bin’ according to a  conservationist on a mission to clean up the mountain range. 

Luc Boisnard, 53, said that climbers also threw waste into glaciers from where it would ‘re-emerge in 200 years’, according to The Times.

The alpinist – who was part of an expedition that cleared out 3.7 tonnes of waste off Makalu, the world’s fifth highest summit and Annapurna, the tenth highest – founded

, a community clean up…