Posted on 03/04/2015 11:07:03 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest in 1953, it was arguably the loneliest place on Earth — an oxygen-deprived desert perched atop an icy, 29,000-foot ladder of death.
Over the last 62 years, more than 4,000 climbers have replicated the pair’s feat, with hundreds more attempting to do so during the two-month climbing season each spring, according to the Associated Press.
Along the way, people have left oxygen canisters, broken climbing equipment, trash, human waste and even dead bodies in their wake, transforming the once pristine peak into a literal pile of … well, you get the idea.
“The two standard routes, the Northeast Ridge and the Southeast Ridge, are not only dangerously crowded but also disgustingly polluted, with garbage leaking out of the glaciers and pyramids of human excrement befouling the high camps,” mountaineer Mark Jenkins wrote in a 2013 National Geographic article on Everest. . .
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Mount Sewage, gross.
I would rather spend 11000 dollars climbing a lesser known mountain that is equally dangerous and equally vast.
Why tread over the same sewage soaked trail as all the narcissists, when you could be using your time and money to be a REAL EXPLORER.
A real outdoorsman will “pack it out”. Climbers must not be real outdoorsmen.
Really. Take a doggie poop bag. Won’t be a weight difference going up or down. It will be frozen so it won’t smell.
What no rich environmentalist with a helicopter and a couple of do-gooders around to clean the mess up?
I am OUTRAGED!
Apparently animals don’t poop.
“Decades of Human Waste” or “Fecal Time Bomb”?
Hmm. I always thought Hillary Clinton was named after the GUY that climbed Mt. Everest.
The route is already laid out, the ropes and ladders installed, and the base area is filled with tons of outfitters camped out waiting for their turn to lead these jerks up the mountain........
And for extra $$$, the outfitters will spend a week with you teaching you how to climb.....LOL!
If you look at current videos of Everest, it's an assembly line of these fools..........
Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton is likely shaking her head in disgust........
lol! How about instead of “rap” we just call it “fecal time bombs.”
That’s only for conservatives. Remember those two gatherings on the National Mall a few years back?
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