With how popular Everest is I’m surprised this wasn’t in place years ago. The same rules have been around for decades in other outdoors destinations, Patagonia off the top of my head.
Ya this was my thought. Every river I have paddled has the exact same requirements.
I did arctic exploration for a decade. We froze all our poo (I’m using this word and giggling like a child – and blaming the headline). Then we put it Rubbermaid tubs and put them on the supply plane that was bringing us food and fuel. They were disposed of in town at proper waste management facilities.
Bonus photo of one of our toilets – basically a seat in a bucket in a tent vestibule. The waste froze solid almost immediately so it didn’t stink.
Seems the Everest adventures weren’t held to the same standards.
I guess there was no scrolling on your phone while you sat there
We had a dish set up and a wifi hotspot, so yes actually haha
But would you WANT to do that with your bare ass exposed to air cold enough to flash freeze poop?
I didn’t read the article but it’s obviously a shame that they allow base camp to run low on poo
…unless they make the summit, then they can just chuck it skyward and let it float into space, like mother nature intended
The people climbing evererest have money. Charge an extra $1000usd per person and use the money for infrastructure , cleaning the mountain, healthcare and pension for the sherpas.
Add more zeros
Thus today the net balance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave; so every time you go to the lavatory there, it is vitally important to get a receipt.
The energy your body uses comes from turning C into CO2 - lost via your lungs, or H2O lost via sweat (some goods to pee, but much is lost to sweat). So you will always be net negative on that planet unless you manage to cheat.
That’s a quote if you didn’t know…
I know it. I just realized the above problem when I read it again… Still funny to think of the idea.
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Do yourself a favor and check out “High Crimes” a graphic novel about a disgraced Olympic snowboarder who gets a gig of hauling dead bodies off of Everest ar $50,000 a body. C. Cerbela and I. Mustafa
Pretty straightforward answer. Increase the price 5x, and make them carry down 5x what they brought up.
Everest is now on ‘hardmode’.
Everyone non-native that has set foot on that mountain should be dragged back and told that their trash comes down or their corpse stays up
By which they mean: get the Sherpas to do it for them.
