{"id":1236,"date":"2012-12-05T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelcenteruk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2019-11-14T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T09:21:13","slug":"mount-everest-rubbish-transformed-into-an-art-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/mount-everest-rubbish-transformed-into-an-art-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest Rubbish Transformed Into An Art Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a means of cleaning Mount Everest and an initiative to promote the local talents, the rubbish has been enormously helpful. Eight tonnes of rubbish from the mountain has been converted in to artistic and awe-inspiring 75 works of art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The process of collecting the rubbish includes 65 porters and trains of 75 longhaired yaks (wild ox) to carry down the foothills of the mountain. It was a two spring expeditions, which completed the entire process of collecting scattered trash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Art were made from empty oxygen bottles, twisted aluminium ladders, torn tents, ropes, gas canisters, boots, crampons, tonnes of plastic bags and food cans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The artworks range from 12 to 150,000 pounds (US$ 15 to US$ 2,300)and several items have already been sold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 75 pieces of spectacular art pieces is commissioned as the \u2018Everest 8848 Art Project\u2019 and open to public display.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An art piece from the rubbish collection includes remnants of a helicopter crash in 1974. These remains have been incorporated together to build an idol of Hindu God Ganesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shards from aluminium cans have been sculptured into medals for the audacious mountaineers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Black metal tent poles transformed in to wind chimes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Empty oxygen bottles mounted on a metal frame to make a Buddhist prayer wheel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Search<\/span> <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" title=\"Low Cost Flights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travelcenteruk.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Low Cost Flights<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a means of cleaning Mount Everest and an initiative to promote the local talents, the rubbish has been enormously helpful. Eight tonnes of rubbish from the mountain has been converted in to artistic and awe-inspiring 75 works of art. The process of collecting the rubbish includes 65 porters and trains of 75 longhaired yaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheap-flights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13173,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/13173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}