Hope and pray this isn't another deadly record year for the mountain.
How many people get up there to trash the place so much? I thought it was hard to climb.
Makes no sense to me when you know that climbing and descending from the summit could kill you. I have a 100% chance of living if I don’t climb and maybe a 95% if I do climb....I’ll take the higher number please.
Well at least now it’s clean and meets environmental standards and regulations.
There are over 200 bodies on Everest. If you google the right search terms you can pull up some pretty eery pics.
Poor guy—he gave his life in an anti-littering effort.
I cannot even imagine climbing Mt Everest. I am a lowland girl, born and raised at sea level. At 8 thousand feet I am already in serious trouble.
Wonder if he's anywhere near "Green Boots?"
Why go up there to clean?
Wait long enough and it will all roll down to the bottom eventually.
I feel very sorry for this gentleman (doctor); but anybody who climes Everest is nuts.
One can stay home and climb one’s stair a jillion times a day. No problema.
Just put the air-conditioning down to minus 0 degrees, wrap up, and pretend one is climbing the Mt.
stair = stairs.
At one time there was a fair amount of trash on Everest. The vast majority was O2 bottles at the South Col. Now there is a recycle program for the bottles and they’ve been cleaned up for over 10 years. The Sherpa make extra money this way by bringing the bottles down instead of empty packs as they cache high camps early in the season. There was never a great deal of other trash. Most has always been packed out. Even human waste is now packed out. As far as bodies are concerned they aren’t all over the place but they are there. If someone dies directly on the route they are moved off to the side and either arranged respectfully or covered with rocks. Most die further down the mountain while attempting to get to lower altitude. Those persons are removed.
The idea that Everest is a trash heap is simply not true. Everest is one of the great clean up success stories.
RIP.
To bad and it’s sad, but in a way, good for him.
I hope that some day I kick the bucket while doing something I love (flying). Some people live safe lives but never lived, nor will they leave a legacy. Anything worth succeeding at, is also a place where you can fail, and that’s true in love, adventure, business, even our finances and how we raise our children. Men like him tend to have accomplished great things in life and while they died on a mountain, their name and accomplishments live on and frankly not even their death is as horrible as it may appear since they were doing what they loved.