The Annual General Meeting of SPCC was successfully conducted on 7th June 2022 at Namche Bazaar. A new 11- member executive committee was elected under the Chairmanship of Mr. Lama Kaji Sherpa from Namche. We heartily welcome our new Chairperson and board members.

Mr. Lama Kaji Sherpa, Chairperson 

Mr. Dawa Gyaljen Sherpa, Vice Chairperson 

Mr. Pemba Tshering Sherpa, General Secretary

Mr. Ngima Tashi Sherpa, Treasurer

Mrs. Nima Doma Sherpa, Member

Mrs. Chheten Doma Sherpa, Member

Mr. Tenzing Dorjee Sherpa, Member

Mr. Ngawang Chombi Sherpa, Member

Mr. Sonam Dorjee Sherpa, Member

Mr. Phulopsang Sherpa, Member

Mr. Ngatemba Sherpa, Member

We would also like to extend a heartfelt thanks to our immediate past Chairman Mr. Ang Dorjee Sherpa and his team. Under his leadership and guidance, SPCC has started many initiatives and made significant achievements in waste management in the Khumbu Region in the last ten years, such as building waste management infrastructures, raising awareness and conducting cleanup campaigns, strengthening community participation in waste management, and adopting the concept of segregating and recycling wastes.

People climbing Mount Everest will now have to clear up their own poo and bring it back to base camp to be disposed of, authorities have said.

"Our mountains have begun to stink," Mingma Sherpa, chairman of Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, told the BBC.

The municipality, which covers most of the Everest region, has introduced the new rule as part of wider measures being implemented.

Due to extreme temperatures, excrement left on Everest does not fully degrade.

"We are getting complaints that human stools are visible on rocks and some climbers are falling sick. This is not acceptable and erodes our image," Mr Mingma adds. Climbers attempting Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, and nearby Mount Lhotse will be ordered to buy so-called poo bags at base camp, which will be "checked upon their return".