There are literally tons of human poop on Mount Everest

vox ^ | 3-4-2015 | Joseph Stromberg

[V_TWIN]

Not directly related but for some reason this story reminds me of a story I heard on the Paul Harvey SR. radio show way back. seems Amtrak used to have the habit of dumping the waste from their gray tanks right on the tracks as the train was travelling from one place to another (probably still do). After Paul Harvey finished the story he paused and quipped “When I was a kid I always used to wonder why the strawberries grew so well along the railroad tracks..........now I know”.

[SampleMan]

Nepal’s problem. I don’t care.

[BitWielder1]

1. It's frozen solid.
2. It's harmless as long as you don't poke around in it.
3. Let the Enviro Nazis go there, dig it up (chip it loose) and transport it down. (Suggestion: use a sled.)

[KarlInOhio]

They say hundreds per year stay at the base camps for weeks. Even at a minimum lets say 200 for 2 weeks and a pound a day each. That's almost a ton and a half every year minimum. Multiply that by 50 years since Hillary Clinton's namesake first climbed Everest and you get a lot of poop.

[NormsRevenge]

well, when global varming kicks in, its all gonna come sliding downhill.. corpses, poop, debris, Bill Clinton’s legacy, Obammy’s real birth certificate..

Its gonna flow..

[OKSooner]

" When backpacking in the wilderness, one always packs out what they bring in, to leave the place the same or better than when they arrived. "

When considering the kind of people one normally sees sporting the really snazzy mountaineering gear made by whatchacallit... Pat... Patarovia, is that it? And others...

Anyway, after all the Subarus I've seen with Patarovia decals on them and the people jumping out of them, sporting $1k worth each of Patarovia mountaineering gear just to go be seen at Starbucks...

There's a certain irony here...

[EQAndyBuzz]

“When backpacking in the wilderness, one always packs out what they bring in, to leave the place the same or better than when they arrived.”

Unless you’re a liberal. Their $hit doesn’t stink.

[Zeppo]

There are literally tons of human poop on Mount Everest

You think that's bad, wait 'till they total how much is on Michael Moore...

[353FMG]

No comparison to what you find on Kilimanjaro.

[Charles Henrickson]

[FirstFlaBn]

If you can’t bring the poop to Muhammed, bring Muhammed to the poop.

Mebbe there’s a marketing opportunity here. Design a ski pole with a pooper scooper attachment.

[Leep]

I smell a poop tax coming.

[Albion Wilde]

They ought to weigh in the climbers at the base, and require that they weigh out at the same number. Climbers will eat a certain weight of food and use a certain weight of gear; they should carry sealable plastic poop bags and take an equal amount of weight down with them.

[NormsRevenge]

They sell arctic ice, why not Himalayan poop. ship it in dry ice.

[RichardW]

As if I didn’t already have enough to worry about, now this.
Whatever shall we do? As Emily Litella would say, “it’s always something.” Good Grief!!

[Albion Wilde]

Let the Enviro Nazis go there, dig it up (chip it loose) and transport it down. (Suggestion: use a sled.)

Can it be burned as fuel? Surely someone can think of a device to make this non-toxic to those in the area of the burner.

[Albion Wilde]

let it dessicate, and there’s far less to haul OR burn. . .

How can it dessicate on a frozen surface?

[InterceptPoint]

Not to worry. It’s frozen poop. You can even pick it up and through it tens of thousands of feet with very little effort.

[BitWielder1]

Sure, but burning poop is bad. Soot, stink, CO2 and whatnot.
We don't want the pristine snow fields discolored.
(Remember, we're talking Enviro logic here.)

[Obadiah]

A certain irony was my thought exactly.

And there can be little doubt that these morally superior mountain climbers are among the “settled science” true believers demanding everyone else conform to the global warming scam and all other types of unfounded environmental nonsense.