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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Which country has launched the 45-day ‘Mt Everest Cleaning Campaign’? Notes: The Government of Nepal has launched an ambitious 45-day ‘Everest Cleaning Campaign’ to bring back tonnes of trash from Mt.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first ever recorded people to climb Everest were Edmund Hillary (a mountaineer from New Zealand) and his Tibetan guide Tenzing Norgay. They climbed the mountain in 1953 and hold the record together. The first records of Everest’s height came much earlier, in 1856.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mount Everest is on the crest of the Great Himalayas of southern Asia. It lies on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

Detailed explanation-4: -Known as the world’s highest mountain, with a recent measurement of 8,848.86 meters (29,031.34), Mount Everest is part of the Himalayas Mountain range on the border of Nepal and China. The two countries share its summit with its north slope in Tibet (China) and south slope in Nepal.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Bally Peak Initiative One of the longest-running clean-up projects in the region, the Eco Everest Expedition has been cleaning the mountain’s waste since 2008.