15 of these nepali artist were stuck for a month in a moutain of 1.5 tons of trash picked up from mount everest, they had to make it into art.
"The trash used in the art works was picked up from the mountain by Sherpa climbers in 2011 and earlier this year and carried down by porters and trains of long-haired yaks." said msn's news article. by wall painter Krishna Bahadur Thing, is a Tibetan mandala painting showing the location of Mount Everest in the universe -- made by sticking yellow, blue and white pieces of discarded beer, food cans and other metals on a round board
people were amazed by the trash that were put into these pieces of artwork and how awesome it looked. the sale on the art is $15 to $2,300 a part of the money goes to the artist and the rest goes to Everest Summiteers' Association, which sponsored the collection of garbage from the mountain.
"Garbage on Everest is shameful. We are trying to turn it into gold here," association chief Wangchu Sherpa told Reuters.
source-(http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/26/uk-nepal-everest-trash-idUSLNE8AP00S20121126)
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