Everest Climbers To Bring Poop Down With Them As Mountain Starts To Stink

After reading "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer, I feel like anyone still traveling to climb Everest is a rich douchebag. It's glorified tourism of the worst kind. It's been done a zillion times already, and isn't as impressive as they fantasize. Go run a marathon or something for your stupid adventure junky social media clout. The sherpas do all the real work.

That's an incredible book. I highly recommend both that and Under the Banner of Heaven. Krakauer is just riveting.
- Totally agree, I think Into Thin Air is maybe my favorite book and I wasn't expecting that at all when I read it. I really enjoyed the show based on Under the Banner of Heaven too. What a bunch of crazies.
- Krakauer is definitely a great writer but the factual issues in into the wild kind of made me wonder just how accurate the rest of his books are.
At this point it'd be safer to just build a tram line to the top and then hire the sherpas as the infrastructure mechanics to keep it maintained, raises their incomes and cuts the shit with people dying for dumb rich people nonsense.
- The Chinese already built a paved road to the North Base Camp. Only a matter of time before they build it all the way to the top.
- But the rich need to maintain their veil of accomplishment! And it's dumb rich people dying, so who cares?
For real, go climb Muchu Chhish if a flex is wanted. Highest unclimbed peak in the world that can be legally climbed right now.
- Ok, help me understand this.
  Muchu Chhish (7,453 metres (24,452 ft)) is a mountain in the Batura Muztagh sub-range of the Karakoram in Hunza Valley, in northern areas of Pakistan.[1] Located in a very remote and inaccessible region, only a handful of attempts have been made to reach the summit; and none have succeeded.
  Ok, that seems to track but then there's this bit...
  most expeditions thus attempt it via the South Ridge of 7,462 m (24,482 ft) Batura VI to the immediate west. This ridge was climbed by a Polish expedition in 1983 using fixed ropes while making the first ascent of 7,531 m (24,708 ft)
IMO he was stressing how easy it has become to make the climb. In that it was expensive is another issue. His point was that people that didn't have the ability to make the climb, could.
- That was definitely one of his major points. But he also talked about all the damage being done, and how people make really stupid decisions. And how it's an arrogant and pointless endeavor. He was fairly self-critical, which I respect.

They're clearly not thinking this through. They all need to lug their frozen poo to the summit and pile it there, so they can stand on it when they take their selfie and declare that they're at a higher peak than any previous summiters due to their poo pedestal.

Love it

One thing that is not on my bucket list is climbing Mt. Everest. Any natural wonder and charm it once had have been destroyed by mindless tourists.

So that is something that is on my bucket list, not climbing Everest.
- Congrats on the bucket list so far! Oh how less poop and endangered your life is now!

Thought it was "starts to sink," I was like ok that's a lot of poop

BRB gotta eat enough tacobell to reverse tectonic processes and launch the monsoons into central asia
I thought it was shrink.

How much frozen human shit has that mountain accumulated since people started climbing it for fun? Can somebody do the math on that? I feel like it has potential for a really shitty trivia question. Like, for Shitty Jeopardy! or something. JFC, I am baked.

@FlyingSquid omg I didn't realize it was your post. Hi! Ok I'm gonna put the bowl down

~~A shitload har har har~~
Apparently the average UK adult defecates about 100g per day, and that's the first link that showed up so I'm going to go with the UK numbers in that one study. According to wikipedia there were 11,346 ascents as of July 2022. Assuming two weeks from base camp to summit and back, based on Tom Kilpatrick's article on The Manual, that means 1.4 kg of shit per climb for a total of almost 16 metric tonnes or 17.5 short tons
- I read that as 17.5 shit tons
- Thank you for your service.
- That number is definitely low, you eat more in the cold and with exertion. It is probably over double your number, that is a lot of doo-doo.
  I imagine all the loss of snow is exposing decades of accumulated mountain dookie.
  By 2100 they are estimating a 75% loss of snow/ice on the mountain, which means at 800 climbs per year(modern rate) by 2100 there will be over 186 metric tonnes of poopy on the mountain with very little snow to hide it. I don't even think that number includes Sherpa scat.
Some maths are better left unmathed
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Astounding how fucking senseless people can be.

Yeah but imagine all the clout and bragging you can do with a photo of you at the top?
- Yeah, but your life is all downhill from there.

They need to just haul a big trebuchet up there.Then they can just launch poop down the mountain in sealed containers with the poop trebuchet. Ideally you could have a few poop trebuchets in a line to launch em down one after another.

Easy peasy.

You're over engineering this.
Have you ever heard about the guys who brought parachutes up Everest, and just glided back down?
Instead of a heavy trebuchet, you just redesign poop bags to have a little parachute attached to them. Then you release your poop to the winds... Who knows how far your poop might go?
So we are just bringing part of Death Stranding to real life?
- Where I have to signup?

Global warming is gonna make that a simple hike.

Support global warming! Let the earth clean up Everest poop the natural way! Decomposition in situ: transport costs more emissions!
The thing that makes Everest dangerous is the air pressure combined with everything else, that's why it's such a long slow ascent, you have to acclimatize so your lungs don't implode.
In the summer the summit temperature is about the same as a bad Canadian prairie winter day
It already is a simple hike, it just depends on weather if it's dangerous or not.
80 year olds have climbed everest. So have 15 year olds.
- Simple hike? Haha have you ever climbed any mountain?
- Have you?
- That 80 year old is a mountaineer. The youngest, at 13, went with three sherpas to help.
  It isn’t a simple hike, but since you seem to think it is- let’s see the pics from when you made the trip.

At least the idiots all funnel to the same place rather than fucking up every location. I feel the same about Joffre Lakes near Vancouver.

limit the permits to climb this mountain and charge people thousands of dollars for them

I too, believe the best way to control a natural resource is to only allow the rich to use it. For they are truly better people. Always known for their consideration.
- Only the rich climb it now.
- Plus, their shit doesn't stink.
- Yeah seriously, just limit the amount of people who can climb.
  I personally believe that anyone should be allowed to go on a suicide mission should they chose to, whether they be rich or poor.
That's already the case isn't it?

You really can't have a better headline for the wealthy enshittifying the world for their singularity point egos chef kiss

Sherpa rates gonna skyrocket

How do they wipe and clean themselves up there? I'd bring my bidet with, lol

Poorly I would guess
Makes you wonder if they just start diet until returning to camp.
Wait is this the no-poop-for-three-days guy is doing all along?

A mountain of shit!

What would Triumph say?

Apparently he would be taken down the mountain when the climbers descend.

I just don't understand why people even climb everest anymore, with all the tech nowadays it's quite easy, and really just depends on weather if you die or not. I've seen some overweight elderly people successfully do it, some as old as 80.

What's the highest you ever got? (not counting planes)
- Prob that time I did 2 hits of acid, a half eighth of mushrooms, and unrestricted weed smokage (couldn't possibly quantify). Not that much.

The first thing I want to know is who shits on the mountain? I mean taking a poo in base camp I can understand-- but on the way?

It takes 2-3 weeks to get from base camp to camp 4. So thats at least 3-4 days between camps.
I know lemmy has a thing about not pooping for 3 days, but to maintain a 3-day bowel movement cycle for 2 weeks is a bit far fetched.
The final ascent from camp 4 to summit is 10-20 hours, plus descent. Normally done in a single stretch, but likely still gonna need a shit.
So, Im going to say everyone that goes up it is gonna shit on the mountain
https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/how-long-does-it-take-to-climb-mount-everest/
- lemmy has a thing about not pooping for 3 days
  What are you... you know what, never mind. I don't want to know.
- Holy shit I had no idea it took 2-3 months to do this
- When they have rest periods during days long climbs a tent camp moves with them. Pretty sure they also have a toilet.
It takes about a week to go from base camp to summit to base camp. Even the fastest ever time on this route is over eighteen hours