Tag: waste management
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An artificial glacier for supply drinking water in the Everest Base Camp (without touching the Khumbu glacier)
We are working on create an artificial glacier at the Everest Base Camp to provide a reliable source of drinking water for daily needs. The objective? Do not touch the Khumbu glacier. Every day during the Everest expedition season 12,000 liters of water are consumed at the Base Camp. It is common at Everest Base…
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Five ways to use renewable energy at Everest Base Camp
Measures such as using renewable energy sources, installing efficient lighting and heating systems, and the collecting and treating of rainwater can be implemented in the Everest Base Camp. In addition, responsible energy and water consumption practices should be promoted among staff and visitors. We have already talked before about energy consumption at Everest Base Camp, based…
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The NeverRest Project Research: This is the energy consumption at the Everest Base Camp
The utilization of gas and kerosene currently stands as the foremost energy source employed at the Everest Base Camp. Gas is primarily used for cooking and heating purposes. Climbers, local mountain guides and support staff require heat for cooking meals and melting snow to obtain drinking water. GENERAL DATA COMPARISON OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION AT EVEREST…
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Nepal presents the First Sustainable Everest Base Camp developed by The NeverRest Project
The NeverRest Project, in collaboration with the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), presents in Nepal different pioneering developments worldwide to reverse the environmental problems on Mount Everest. Each expedition season, around 240,000 liters of urine are generated and dumped directly into the Khumbu glacier, and the solutions presented reduce urine by 42%. The Sustainable Base Camp…
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Frédéric Kauffmann: “The tourism model has to catch up, it’s very agressive right now”.
The CEO & Founder of The NeverRest Project, Frédéric Kauffmann, has been invited to South Summit Madrid to speak about Waste Not, Want Not: Sustainable Solutions for Waste Management. It has been a great opportunity to share with the audience different aspects on which we are working on. “The tourism model has to catch up, it’s…
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Kami Rita Sherpa from the top of Mount Everest in his new world record: “Respect it today and enjoy it forever”
Kami Rita Sherpa from the top of Mount Everest in his new world record: “Respect it today and enjoy it forever” The climber who has reached Everest summit the most times in history and the The NeverRest Project call for more awareness about waste and rubbish in a piece of abandoned tent on the mountain.…
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Kauffmann: “Our business model is also developing good practices in mountains, investing in education and in local communities”.
The CEO & Founder of The NeverRest Project, Frédéric Kauffmann, has been at South Summit Brazil, in Porto Alegre, invited to speak about Environmental Engineering: Self Sufficient Circular Economy. It has been a great opportunity to share with the audience different aspects on which we are working on. “In Mount Everest we are facing the most high environmental…
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Tourism can only be regenerative
By Frédéric Kauffmann, CEO & Founder The NeverRest Project Tourism can only be regenerative. There is no other way to restore all the balances lost in many decades. The result, we already know. In the Atacama Desert (Chile), thousands of tons of clothing accumulate, millions of garments that turn the desert into a colossal landfill. In the…
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The NeverRest Project and the regenerative tourism in Fitur 2023
The NeverRest Project has joined Fitur 2023, the main international tourism exhibition in Spain and one of the most importants in Europe, where we have chatted with important stakeholders from Nepal. We have shared ideas and impressions about the regenerative tourism with the Government officials and tourism business associations, whom shared important ideas and perspectives…