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Ben Nevis on slippery slope as walkers leave thousands of bananas behind

For years, photographs, plastic flowers, toys, dolls and numerous cairn memorials to loved ones or pets blighted the summit of Britain’s highest mountain – but now it is discarded banana skins.

 

 

Fruit-eating litter louts are a major problem, even at the highest altitudes.