Ken Noguchi, a Japanese national, is to lead a team of 12 mountaineers to initiate another Mt. Qomolangma clean-up campaign starting from April 15 from the northern side.

The team comprising nine Nepali Sherpa and three Japanese mountaineers will concentrate mainly on the advance base camp situated at 6,400-meter of north ridge of the Mt. Qomolangma. They expect to collect as much as one ton of garbage including tents, ropes, oxygen cylinders and good cans, Noguchi said.

Prior to this, he has carried out clean-up campaigns four times, twice from south and twice from north. During his previous campaigns, the Japanese mountaineer had already brought some 8.8 tons of garbage including 400 gas cylinders to Kathmandu from the Mt. Qomolangma, said Noguchi during a press conference organized in Kathmandu before his departure to the base camp on Thursday.

Noguchi, who launched the cleaning campaign of Mt. Qomolangma in 2001, said, "the highlight of this cleaning campaign is that a similar campaign will be going to on simultaneously at the Japan's tallest peak Mt. Fuji with over 200 participants."

"We will be able to have contacts and communications of both the teams and the cleaning campaign will be telecast live through satellite television," said Noguchi.