{"id":7012,"date":"2015-10-22T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T11:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2015-11-19T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T11:09:18","slug":"k-2-base-camp-swept-clean-by-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/10\/k-2-base-camp-swept-clean-by-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan mountain K-2&#8217;s base camp is swept clean by volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.tribune.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/977102-Kcopy-1445446492-398-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Himalayan mountain K-2&#039;s base camp is swept clean by volunteers\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A group of volunteers in Gilgit-Baltistan trekked up to Concordia, the K-2 basecamp, for \u2018operation clean-up.\u2019 While cleanliness drives are quite common in the cities, this team removed waste and refuse from the base camp, working in freezing temperatures on a difficult terrain.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-member group, led by Shamshad Hussain, collected 2,750 kilogrammes of solid waste during their trek which started from Skardu on October 3 and concluded on October 16. They covered 100 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/977102\/on-top-of-the-world-k-2-base-camp-swept-clean\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">K-2 base camp swept clean &#8211; The Express Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>35-member group collected 2,750 kilogrammes of solid waste during their trek designed to promote responsible tourism in the region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,130,534],"tags":[503,162],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Himalayan mountain K-2&#039;s base camp is swept clean by volunteers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"35-member group collected 2,750 kilogrammes of solid waste during their trek designed to promote responsible 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