Posted on 10/13/2011 2:34:05 PM PDT by jakerobins
Green groups say there's just too much poop on top of Mount Everest, not to mention trash and even corpses.
Eco Himal is asking the Nepalese government to put port-a-potties on the famous peak, which they say has become fouled by generations of climbers who leave deposits that can last forever given the climate.
"Human waste is a problem, of course," the group's director, Phinjo Sherpa, told AFP. "I am merely suggesting that if we have public toilets they can be used."
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How about a Starbucks too while we’re at it?
If you are "green" don't climb Mt. Everest.
Problem solved!
Don’t the greenies believe global warming is inevitable? So just wait for the mountain to melt, and then all the crap will dissolve with the ice. In the mean time, it’s nice and frozen and out of the way. No problem.
What are they talking about? I was there just last month and they were there! Just tell them to go take a look....I’d send them a picture but there was this horrible boating accident and I lost them.
Sure, let them haul one up on their backs.
Uh, what I have heard about the top to Mt. Everest is that is one of the specific locations to be without poo. Never heard anything specific about litteral poop, but I heard that it is so damb bloody cold and the oxygen so thin that you are only up there for a minute to get a gander then get out of there. I guess people have to go on their way up, but even then I can’t see piles of litter or poo. The Nepalese take decent care of their mountain and I think the green freaks have absolutely no idea what they are talking about
If you know it's never going to go away, bag it and take it down with you, slobs.
The corpses you can use like a sled to speed your descent.
Here’s the thing....if you brought 700 guys up to the mountain each year....each will do his dump every single day they are hiking, and it’ll freeze. Add up the math and figure 2040 rolls around, and there’s likely 300 tons of waste frozen and just about everywhere where you walk. I personally think by 2050 that no one will want to walk to the summit because of all the waste sitting around.
I look forward to the Ice Hill Truckers episodes where the vacuum trucks go up to clean them.
Can just picture the pretty blue portapotti tumbling down the mountain end over end after a huge wind gust with a climber inside with his pants down.
Obviously, these "Greens" didn't get much attention from their Mommy when they were kids, so trying to make up for it now. MEGAMORONS!!!
From what I’ve seen, there’s nothing majestic about climbing Everest these days anyway. Looks like a lot of waiting in line for your turn at the top.
Just how do they think someone is going to drive up a suck truck to empty the porta-potties.
They are not magical self emptying machines.
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How about in New York first?
The groups director-Phinjo Sherpa?
Should he not have the job of guide.
The toe-tappers would just ruin it for everybody like they did with rest stops on the highway.
Yeah, I prefer the good old-fashioned majesty of stepping in 60-year old frozen poop while gazing out from the roof of the world :)
Just think, given enough time it will create a new glacier. LOL
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