1y ago

Everest climbers will have to take their poop away with them, as Nepal tries to address growing waste problem

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Everest climbers will have to take their poop away with them, as Nepal tries to address growing waste problem | CNN

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1y ago

Nepal tells Everest tourists to take their shit with them

www.cnn.com /2024/03/25/travel/everest-climbers-poop-bags-intl-scli/index.html

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One could assume it is a basic understanding to take your literal shit back home...
- Normal rock climbers do, or organise someone below to collect poop bags below on big wall.
  A lot of hikers don't, though. Neither their poop nor their rubbish.
  Source: Rock climber that frequents clean up trail days so our favourite locations don't get shut down. "Leave it better than you found it." is a common saying in the community whenever going outdoors.
  
  Rubbish, I understand. But wouldn't human feces decompose really quickly in most except for the coldest environments?
Sherpa rates just 10x'd
- I was just thinking this. We all know it will fall on the Sherpas to carry people's poop back down.
Just tell everyone to poop at the summit. It'll make the mountain taller and bring in more people.
They should just install a cable lift by now
Can we just, stop? Stop the bullshit - stop trekking dumb people up mountains, stop cruising boatloads of assholes around the antarctic so they can 'see nature' while their cruise ships burn bunker oil and shit effluence into the oceans? there are dozens of examples of pointless consumption that sicken me. there's more corpsesickles on everest that will remain until the last glaciers melt, can we just stop hatefucking the planet?
edit: downvoter - what's your argument? what am I missing?
Apparently, sh.itjust.dont.work (on everist)
The fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance 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.
They could build a train track, or zip line, up and down the mountain. A zip line would make waste disposal easier :)
- What would be the terminal velocity of the poop sliding down a zip line? I can just imagine it hitting a wall at the end and exploding 😅
  
  Roughly the airspeed of an unladen swallow.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Those hoping to climb Everest this year will have to make some slight adjustments to their packing list, as new rules now mandate that climbers bring their excrement down with them from the world’s highest peak, in a bid to tackle pollution.
With gear, food, supplemental oxygen, Sherpa guides and more, it costs upward of $35,000 to take on the mountain.
But the world’s highest peak has a poop problem, driven by the number of visitors, and the harsh conditions on the mountain, which interfere with the degradation process.
Jinesh Sindurakar of the Nepal Mountaineering Association told CNN that an estimated 1,200 people will be on Everest this season.
“Each person produces 250 grams (8.8 ounces) of excrement a day and they will spend 2 weeks on the higher camps for the summit push,” Sindurakar explained, adding that each climber will be given two poop bags, which can each be used six times.
Efforts to reduce the impact of tourism on the Himalayas have stepped up, with 35,708 kilograms of waste and plastics removed from peaks including Everest, Lhotse, Annapurna and Baruntse through an initiative led by the Nepali Army, according to the Himalayan Times.
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They could always put in an outhouse, but it would be pretty cold to use. Eight Crazy Nights

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