KATHMANDU: At total of 11,000 kilograms of garbage and four dead bodies have been removed from Mount Everest as a part of a cleanup campaign at the world’s highest mountain.

The Associated Press reported Nepal Tourism Department official Danduraj Ghimire was quoted as saying that the cleaners spent weeks collecting food wrappings, cans, bottles and empty oxygen cylinders.

There are no estimates of exactly how much trash is on the mountain.

Ghimire said the four bodies were exposed by melting snow and were carried to base camp and then flown to a hospital in Kathmandu for identification.