Posted on 08/22/2014 6:38:38 AM PDT by rktman
Environmentalists have switched their assault on the world economy to a new frontier, previously unaffected by their agenda – peaks, Mount Everest to be more specific, located between China and Nepal in the Himalayas. The 29,029 feet mountain is in danger. What is the crisis? According to the National Geographic team, the mountain is “overcrowded with inexperienced climbers and polluted with waste.”
The nature of the pollution includes human corpses, human excrement, garbage leaking from glaciers, abandoned equipment, and overcrowding. How crowded could it be? Mark Jenkins described at 26,000 feet the dangerous inconvenience of more than 100 climbers moving slowly, forcing everybody else to move at the same pace.
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“Thanks for addressing the issue Doc. “
You really should read the whole article before posting and commenting ....
They should have a strict pack it in & pack it out policy. Make people pay a deposit for everything they take up. If they want their deposit, they’ll have to show that they brought everything back.
Including the bodies?
read the article? before commenting?
how long you been at free republic?
“how long you been at free republic?”
Long enough to know that one should read the article before commenting.
This is pathetic, these assh0les are bat ass crazy. I just seen Mt. Everest and i like to know where is all the pollution. Didn’t look like Detroit or Chicagpo to me.
Earth Day Aftermath
Photograph by Bob Daugherty/AP
Looking hung over from the first Earth Day, litter-filled parks like the National Mall (Washington Monument pictured) in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 1970, partly negated the previous day’s environmental message.
“This is sadly the reality of too many environmental activists,” said artist Pablo Solomon, who participated in Houston’s 1970 Earth Day events.
“The crowds again are often people looking for something to do or have an axe to grind on some other issue. People should practice what they preach.”
Maybe that’s part of the thrill for the people that want to climb Everest.
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LOL! I guess I missed something there TexasGator. I didn’t say nobody should go and I thought the Doc addressed some controls on the folks who make the trek. Maybe not enough of a commentary on removal of bodies and trash and debris. Heck, somebody could make a few bucks (or not) in recycling all the O2 bottles left behind. Or, the Sherpas could (with a little assist from the Nepalese govt, put in “pack it in pack it out” restrictions.
It didn’t look like that after the 9-12 rally.
I wonder if environmentalists consider mountains polluted if they are covered with wildlife, their dung, and their carcasses. Animals are killed off, die of natural causes, sometimes partially or completely eaten; their remains and fecal matter decompose scattered on the ground. Is that environmentally hazardous to the mountain?
This completely ignores the fact that, at the elevations/temperatures/other conditions near the Everest summit, (a) there is no other "wildlife," and (b) the trash, bodies, and other things left behind by climbers just remain there. They are not eaten (see point (a)), and they essentially do not decompose. There is a reason that decades-old corpses are used as navigation points up and down the mountain.
“Pack it in, pack it out” is a lot easier said than done when it’s 20 below, blowing gale force, with darkness approaching and only a fraction of normal oxygen. If you seriously think anyone is going to stop on a summit descent to pick up litter, you’re deluded.
The cost of an Everest summit bid is staggering. Let the parasites who are making millions off these expeditions take care of the trash problem. It’s not like they can’t afford it.
I read the article and agree with rktman. People should clean up after themselves or stay home.
So if you were climbing it you could set Fred and Jim’s bodies as waypoints?
BfL
LOL! Is it easier to pack it in when it’s 20 below than to pack it out when it’s 20 below?
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