[vetvetdoug]

The place already looks like a Mississippi highway right of way with all of the litter from the treks up and down Everest over the years. This is going to make it look ever worse. People are going to be climbing Everest over trash heaps in the near future.

[Drew68]

People are going to be climbing Everest over trash heaps in the near future.

Eventually, the government is going to shut it down. They'd do it now if not for the money it brings in. The whole place is trashed.

Out of morbid curiosity, I wonder if the avalanche brought down any of the countless bodies of climbers that have been left frozen on Everest for decades.

[TurboZamboni]

6 months training in Denver and $50k for gear and sherpas can buy you a summit.

A few million bucks and name recognition from your ancestor’s department store chain can buy you the MN governor’s office.

[minnesota_bound]

#6 and the dead people.

[trebb]

The place already looks like a Mississippi highway right of way with all of the litter from the treks up and down Everest over the years. This is going to make it look ever worse. People are going to be climbing Everest over trash heaps in the near future.

I guess cleaning the litter up outweighs the 22 deaths.....

If litter is where it cannot be seen by a specific person, how bothered should that person be over that litter?