It’s the world’s highest mountain — of trash.

Crews removed more than 24,000 pounds of garbage, plus four dead bodies, left behind on Mount Everest by adventure-seekers challenging the world’s tallest peak.

Food wrappers, human excrement, camping gear and empty oxygen containers accounted for much of the high-altitude litter, which was flown to Kathmandu via army helicopter.

One corpse is believed to be that of a Russian mountaineer, while another was thought to be that of a Nepalese climber. The other bodies have yet to be identified, and Nepalese authorities on Thursday urged the tragic climbers’ families to step forward and claim them.

The bodies had been exposed by melting snow during the spring thaw and were flown to the state-run Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu for identification.

More than 300 people have died trying to summit the mountain’s 29,000-foot-plus peak over the last 70 years, and climbers who struggle to make it back down the slopes are sometimes forced to leave behind their fallen comrades.

Eleven people, including two Americans, have died there so far this year.

Much of the garbage, meanwhile, was found at Camps 2 and 3 — rest stops where climbers recoup between the base camp and the summit.

Workers spent weeks collecting wrappers, cans, bottles and empty air tanks, according to the Nepal Tourism Department.

Much of the garbage was handed over to a recycling organization on Wednesday to coincide with World Environment Day, according to The Times of India.

The Nepalese government has tried in the past to clean up the mountain. In 2014, it required all climbers who return from the peak to bring down roughly 17 pounds of garbage — the amount an average climber is estimated to generate.

The cleanup comes as officials grapple with the growing number of adventurers who challenge the peak every year.

Nepal issued 381 permits this year to those seeking to summit Everest — at $11,000 a pop — but the government is now being pressured to limit the number, citing the dangerous “traffic” jams high up on the mountain.

With Post wires