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People climbing Mount Everest will now have to bring their own poo back to base camp - as experts warn the world's highest mountain has 'begun to stink'
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 9, 2024 | Shivali Best

Posted on 02/09/2024 2:55:04 AM PST by C19fan

It's something that features on many people's bucket lists.

But if you've always dreamed of climbing Mount Everest, new regulations may make you reconsider.

People who climb the world's highest mountain will now have to bring their own poo back to base camp.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: everest; himalayas; mountain; sherpa
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The rich Westerners will not be the ones to carry the poo. The sherpas will do the dirty deed.
1 posted on 02/09/2024 2:55:04 AM PST by C19fan
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Climbing Everest is nothing more than a real expensive tour.


2 posted on 02/09/2024 3:05:44 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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I’m surprised they don’t bring it down anyway and burn it and use the carbon for the garden.


3 posted on 02/09/2024 3:07:13 AM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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“The sherpas”

Speaking of them I recall reading that Sherpa Tenzing was the first to reach Mt. Everest, not Edmund Hillary.


4 posted on 02/09/2024 3:12:00 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I recently saw where they had like a 50 person waiting line at the top so people could do their photo op. Looks like too many people are doing it, not on my bucket list.


5 posted on 02/09/2024 3:12:25 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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Many of them have also died on the way up and you can see the bodies of those who tried but did not make it.


6 posted on 02/09/2024 3:13:39 AM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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What they need to bring are mini catapults to fling their turds way off to the side. Can you imagine you are freezing and breathing hard in the thin air. And you must pick up your shyte, bag it and take it down the mountain? Not me!

Are some feminazi Scandinavian Gretas in charge here at the roof of the world? F em.


7 posted on 02/09/2024 3:20:41 AM PST by dennisw (Be positive. Every day is a new day!)
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The mother of all slippery slopes.


8 posted on 02/09/2024 3:22:12 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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The sherpas will do the dirty deed.

There's a "5-Mile-High Club" for Mt. Everest?!"

Are there female sherpas?

Regards,

9 posted on 02/09/2024 3:26:36 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Females?
Who needs females??


10 posted on 02/09/2024 3:31:05 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Hot Tabasco

I have been in SW Colorado the past 6 weeks ice climbing. I know a few guides that take contracts on Everest each year.
One of them told me the dangers of high altitude are real. Also the most technical part of the climb is the Hillary Step. If this section were at a lower altitude like in CO. It would be rated 5.6 in difficulty. They now have a ladder there, so people don’t have to climb it.
I worked the kids wall this year at the Ouray Ice Fest with Lakpa Rita Sherpa. He has submitted Everest 17 times. Meaning he set the ropes, and got the rich folks to the top. Very nice humble man.


11 posted on 02/09/2024 3:33:30 AM PST by Iceclimber58
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I have been in SW Colorado the past 6 weeks ice climbing. I know a few guides that take contracts on Everest each year.
One of them told me the dangers of high altitude are real. Also the most technical part of the climb is the Hillary Step. If this section were at a lower altitude like in CO. It would be rated 5.6 in difficulty. They now have a ladder there, so people don’t have to climb it.
I worked the kids wall this year at the Ouray Ice Fest with Lakpa Rita Sherpa. He has submitted Everest 17 times. Meaning he set the ropes, and got the rich folks to the top. Very nice humble man.


12 posted on 02/09/2024 3:33:30 AM PST by Iceclimber58
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WhileI've never met anyone who has climbed Everest I'd be much more impressed if I met someone who had summited K2 the second highest. It's a much harder climb and not for rich tourists because your chances of dying are much higher.


13 posted on 02/09/2024 4:13:55 AM PST by xp38
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It’s hard to find a Porta Potty at 20,000 feet, isn’t it?


14 posted on 02/09/2024 4:21:23 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Honor system? Will each climber fill out a form promising to bring it all back with them?
And if they don’t, how will we ever know and what would be the consequences? You’d better go back up there and get it?
Applications for The Poo Police can be “downloaded” online.


15 posted on 02/09/2024 4:31:57 AM PST by lee martell
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Imaging the poor shmuck from San Francisco who decides he’s had enough of the poopy streets and decides to head to the farthest place he can think of to escape......Mt. Everest. Only to find it’s just like home? Bummer


16 posted on 02/09/2024 4:46:14 AM PST by vespa300
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Somebody actually brought a two year old. Risked the life of their toddler.


17 posted on 02/09/2024 4:58:03 AM PST by yldstrk
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18 posted on 02/09/2024 4:58:07 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Bring them down and add them to gardens in Sherpa village. Enrich the soil.


19 posted on 02/09/2024 5:00:25 AM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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Sling shots.


20 posted on 02/09/2024 5:01:15 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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