Nepal tells Everest tourists to take their shit with them
Nepal tells Everest tourists to take their shit with them
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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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How about their shit and the rest of their garbage? Or raise the tax/fine for not doing so to better fund efforts to clean up the mountain. First option is probably better because then no one has to risk their life cleaning up after other people.
I get that it's a crazy achievement to summit the highest point above sea level, a point dozens, if not hundreds have died to reach, but it shouldn't come at the cost of the environment.
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there is enough garbage there now that they could just make the tourist permit require everyone to bring down more than they take up with them
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See rich idiots. Now its a double SECRET hard mode to validate your self worth. Harder than ever before. Heres a trashbag.
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Honestly, the achievement shouldn't be who making it to the summit anymore. It should be who removed the most trash. Or a yearly summit+trash removal competition. More impressive than an Olympic gold medal, the Everest Restoration medal!
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I think they should do a cleaning brigade gauntlet made of potential climbers. If you aclimate and clean well enough you get invited back for the next season depending on performance. Then, at the sherpa's discretion, you may be allowed to summit. Sort of a "prove your worth first". I bet the traffic jams and garbage would become a thing of the past.
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If you lose you become part of the next crew's load
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Actually they do. I believe they're required to return with a certain amount of trash on their return or they get fined.
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In fairness it's $35k to climb it, a third of that goes straight to Nepal and they have thousands climb every year. Surely that's enough to get some robotics garbage & poop system?.
I get people should bring their own garbage down but if they're that rich my point is that they can pay someone else to do it
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Yick who wants to climb up a mountain packed with shit. Why do people want to climb Everest anyway? It's such a stupid thing to do. I can think of five million things I'd rather do than climb a frozen tundra of rock and human poop.
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For social media, like everything
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Ex-ACTLY.
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perhaps they could also grab a random corpse and take it down with them?
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They could make it part of the marketing. Climb the mountain, get your bragging rights and a free corpse!
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Eve Online players like this!
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Now that's a shitpost
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Cue wealthy upper-crust climbers clutching their pearls - "Well I never...!"
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It has always blown my mind that they leave all their shit and garbage up there. Any and all responsible hikers, backpackers, and mountain climbers have a "pack it in, pack it out" policy. It's the norm. Yeah, packing shit sucks, but you love nature, so you deal with it.
I’d wager that the love of nature is not something a fair amount of Everest climbers give two shits about, or at the very least it’s nowhere near the “photo op” that’s at the top of their list of priorities.
Tbh, keeping your rubbish on you probably isn't on the forefront of your mind while you're both slowly suffocating and slowly freezing up there.
It's not really comparable to taking a hike through your local national park.
Not to say littering up there is justified, it's not. but i can understand why it happens
Oh, I get that. But if it's not something you're willing and able to deal with, then you shouldn't be going up there to begin with.
Eh, imo if you decide to risk your life unnecessarily climbing a mountain, plan to take your garbage out because you shouldn't be let back down without it. Freeze up there with the garbage.