Some people keep making us believe in the best of humankind with their kindness, effort, and desire to make the world a better place. One of those people is Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy who won the 2019 ‘Terre de Femmes’ award given out by the ‘Fondation Yves Rocher’ for her work in helping clean up Mount Everest from the tons and tons of trash left behind by the people climbing it.
In the 3 years since founding the ‘Clean Everest’ project in 2016, Marion and her team had cleared a whopping 8.5 tons of waste and garbage before being awarded the 2019 award for their hard work. If you think that sounds impressive, here’s another fun fact—that amount of rubbish they cleared amounted to three-quarters of all the manmade waste on the mountain.