Mount Everest Rubbish Transformed Into An Art Exhibition

As a means of cleaning Mount Everest and an initiative to promote the local talents, the rubbish has been enormously helpful. Eight tonnes of rubbish from the mountain has been converted in to artistic and awe-inspiring 75 works of art.

The process of collecting the rubbish includes 65 porters and trains of 75 longhaired yaks (wild ox) to carry down the foothills of the mountain. It was a two spring expeditions, which completed the entire process of collecting scattered trash.

Art were made from empty oxygen bottles, twisted aluminium ladders, torn tents, ropes, gas canisters, boots, crampons, tonnes of plastic bags and food cans.

The artworks range from 12 to 150,000 pounds (US$ 15 to US$ 2,300)and several items have already been sold.

The 75 pieces of spectacular art pieces is commissioned as the ‘Everest 8848 Art Project’ and open to public display.

An art piece from the rubbish collection includes remnants of a helicopter crash in 1974. These remains have been incorporated together to build an idol of Hindu God Ganesh.

Shards from aluminium cans have been sculptured into medals for the audacious mountaineers.

Black metal tent poles transformed in to wind chimes

Empty oxygen bottles mounted on a metal frame to make a Buddhist prayer wheel

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