MESSY MOUNTAINS

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MESSY MOUNTAINS
CNN ANCHOR: Now it's ugly side of the world's most picturesque peaks. Climbers fluffing to famous mountains just like Fuji and Everest leaves tons of garbage behind. As James MacDonald tells us one renowned Japanese mountaineer has made it his life's works to clean up the slopes.
JAMES MAC DONALD: From a distance it's a post card image get a bit closer to Mount Fuji, you'll find some thing that spoils the scenery. Japan's iconic mountain has a garbage problem, a stark contrast to a country known for its cleanliness.
KEN NOGUCHI (JAPANESE MOUNTAINEER): Mount Fuji is known around the world. Many foreigners visit especially in the summer, when they come to climb it they see rubbish like this, it's embarrassing.
JAMES MAC DONALD: For mountaineer Ken Noguchi the trash is a disgrace and the inspiration for a global crusade to clean up what he climbs. Noguchi is Japan's most famous alpinist, at one time the youngest man to summit the world's seven highest peaks, scaling Mount Everest for the first time he found the Himalayas wonder wasn't exactly what he expected.
KEN NOGUCHI: Before going, I always saw beautiful images of Everest on TV, I thought it would be like that but once I got there, I found litter everywhere.
JAMES MACDONALD: Climbers leave behind plenty. Much of the rubbish bearing Japanese labels, Noguchi set out to clean it up. Over several expeditions, his international team has removed eight tons of trash from Everest, hardly an easy job at those altitudes.
KEN NOGUCHI: You carry the garbage from eight thousand meters down to six thousand meters, again and again for two months, it's really hard especially when
temperatures are up and there is one avalanche after another. I was worried I may become garbage myself.
JAMES MAC DONALD: Noguchi has since turned his attention closer to home, he leads a local club on frequent clean up trips hoping to restore the natural beauty. The volunteers are finding some of the last things you'd ever expect to see at the base of Mount Fuji, you have a 27 inch television set, a computer monitor, a collection of car batteries, that's after only fifteen minutes of cleaning. Within hours the trash is piled high, the surprising site even for seasoned climbers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have climbed many mountains in Japan, he says, but this one has the most garbage, most climbers have good abdicate but there are many visitors and some heartless people dumb their trash here. Still seven years of scrubbing are paying off, particularly at the upper reaches. Though few will ever rich the heights he's experienced. Noguchi hopes to inspire people to take better care of the slopes.
KEN NOGUCHI: An alpinist goes into dangerous conditions, but the most important thing is he never give up, it's the same with environmental problems, you can't do it all by yourself, but if you can get a group of people together, anything is possible. JAMES MAC DONALD: To a man used to near impossible tasks it's just one more adventure. James MacDonald, CNN, near Mount Fuji, Japan.。