March 4, 2015

Piles of shit on Mt. Everest

Gawker - The chief of Nepal's mountaineering association says that human sewage has become a critical problem on Mount Everest, urging his country's government to make visitors properly dispose of their shit and piss.

"Climbers usually dig holes in the snow for their toilet use and leave the human waste there," Ang Tshering Sherpa told reporters , saying that feces have been "piling up" for years.

As the Washington Post notes, these concerns are hardly new, Outside editor Grayson Schaffer going so far as to call the peak a "fecal time bomb" last April. By one estimate, the mountain's hundreds of visitors drop up to 26,500 pounds of feces each year.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice volunteers from the wealthy tourist class, that is, their Ivy College attending high rent kids, get extra chits and extra trips for volunteering in "compost crews", where high tech mini green houses are installed, with built in sun focussing lenses, where broccoli and raspberries are grown for all those feces producers. Nice fresh healthy things for the trek, etc.
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robbie said...

Oh, shit.