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GoatyGoaty Posts: 7,776
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Too much poo is being left behind by climbers on Mount Everest!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31706131?OCID=fbasia

Yuck!

I know it could be problems, as with too many climbers there, remember that photo of long queue near top of Mount Everest.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02574/everest1_2574240b.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/19/article-2327185-19D3BDA5000005DC-521_634x423.jpg

With 700 climbers and guides there every year which start this week to May. After 16 local guides were killed in an avalanche last year, I expect there will be some deaths this year :(

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    dylan99dylan99 Posts: 10,004
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    I know Mr Everest, who gave his name to the mountain is buried around the corner. I bet he's turning in his grave! :o
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    exlordlucanexlordlucan Posts: 35,375
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    Goaty wrote: »
    I know it could be problems, as with too many climbers there, remember that photo of long queue near top of Mount Everest.
    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02574/everest1_2574240b.jpg
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/19/article-2327185-19D3BDA5000005DC-521_634x423.jpg
    That's put me off going there, the queues are like those seen at theme parks.
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    TheTruth1983TheTruth1983 Posts: 13,462
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    Maybe there should be portaloos at various stages up the mountain? :D:p
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    deans6571deans6571 Posts: 6,137
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    ...this thread is full of shit.
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    Big Boy BarryBig Boy Barry Posts: 35,389
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    Goaty wrote: »
    Too much poo is being left behind by climbers on Mount Everest!
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31706131?OCID=fbasia

    Yuck!

    I know it could be problems, as with too many climbers there, remember that photo of long queue near top of Mount Everest.
    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02574/everest1_2574240b.jpg
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/19/article-2327185-19D3BDA5000005DC-521_634x423.jpg

    With 700 climbers and guides there every year which start this week to May. After 16 local guides were killed in an avalanche last year, I expect there will be some deaths this year :(

    Meh

    It's all biodegradable.
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    Si_CreweSi_Crewe Posts: 40,202
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    vinba wrote: »
    I've seen some of the photos of base camp with oxygen cylinders discarded all over the place.. It does look sometimes like a huge rubbish dump.

    I haven't read-up on this but I can't help wondering what the causes of the problems might be though.

    I mean, by way of example, when I was working in China we hired a specialist company to tanker away our chemical waste.
    They sucked it all into their tankers, drove around the corner and then... dumped it all into a convenient farm irrigation ditch.

    Seems like there's often no real, conscientious, impetus to act in an environmentally responsible manner in these places.

    I can't help wondering if the problem, here, is caused by all the climber-tourists, themselves, or if it's the result of people paying locals to take care of this stuff and the locals making a half-assed job of it.
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    MustabusterMustabuster Posts: 5,975
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    So you expect people to climb up Everest just to clean up somebody else's poo?
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    phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    I read....
    Mount Everest

    ...and - knowing DS - hoped it wasn't going to be about bumming the double glazing salesman...
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    ba_baracusba_baracus Posts: 3,236
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    A bit of poo is not that bad when you consider the fact that Everest is also littered with the corpses of climbers who didn't make it.
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    valkayvalkay Posts: 15,726
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    Mustabuster wrote: »
    So you expect people to climb up Everest just to clean up somebody else's poo?

    Apparently some Nepalese Sherpas do just that.
    There is probably a footpath up Everest now, and I could walk up in my trainers.:D
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    HarrisonMarksHarrisonMarks Posts: 4,360
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    My dog poops where he likes. And I couldn't find a tree to hang a bag on.
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    dd68dd68 Posts: 17,841
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    I saw this! Time for the 'little bags' to be used by humans too
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    stoatiestoatie Posts: 78,106
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    Wasn't that what that book Touching The Cloth was about?
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    CravenHavenCravenHaven Posts: 13,953
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    Mustabuster wrote: »
    So you expect people to climb up Everest just to clean up somebody else's poo?
    Yeah, Spider Man.

    You know if you laid all the turds on Mount Everest end to end... you could lay a cable with it over the atlantic.
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    morganb1611morganb1611 Posts: 458
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    If you ever get the chance watch this on iplayer Epic of Everest.. A time when Everest still had it's beauty.
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    jesayajesaya Posts: 35,597
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    stoatie wrote: »
    Wasn't that what that book Touching The Cloth was about?

    :D:D:D
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    droogiefretdroogiefret Posts: 24,117
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    avalanche
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    jrajra Posts: 48,325
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    I'm not climbing Everest just because it is there.

    Besides, I might tread on a shit, so that's confirmed it really.

    No internet either.

    Everest. The land of frozen poo. That would be great to put in a travel brochure.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 8,916
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    Looks like the saying "don't eat yellow snow" now extends to brown snow as well.
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    CravenHavenCravenHaven Posts: 13,953
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    Reminds me of that old advert: "Sh*t the best. Everest"
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