February 27, 2024 at 3:46 pm
People Who Climb Mount Everest Are Being Asked To Bring Their Waste Back To Base Camp With Them. – ‘Our mountains have begun to stink.’
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Personally, I think everything to do with climbing Mount Everest is slightly weird, morbid, and gross (to varying degrees). That said, the build-up of left behind poop is definitely somewhere on that scale. Because it’s a lot of poop. The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee says that literal tons of excrement have been dumped between Camp One…