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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Effin’ Hippies! You pack it IN, you pack it OUT! Dead bodies included!
Hollow pumpkin, fecal matter, M80 with a long fuse...
LOL! See my Post 21!
"Decades of Human Waste" or "Fecal Time Bomb"?
So, in one respect, at least, Mount Everest and Washington, DC, have something in common.
Obviously “the government” needs to throw a few billion dollars at this problem. I mean, after spending a few hundred million studying it and blaming republicans for it, being a “crisis” and all. Obviously.
Isn't that the same as SHTF? Or is it a new type of WMD?
Chomolungma should be closed to human presence . Other than , say , one ascent per year .
I have flown by this mountain and all others in the range from a distance of several miles off . There is no sign of human presence from that perspective and that’s how it should be . Let the Migyur have it back . Humans , other than the indigenous people , have no right to be up there befouling it.
Now, it’s basically just people with money being carried to the top by the Sherpa, not much to do with climbing, more to do with hubris.
I have also read that close to 200 who have died trying the climb and died, their bodies are still on the mountain.
I think it’s more along the lines of what rolls downhill.
At this rate, I can see all mountain climbing being shut out, and any so called research will become very expensive.
Didn’t Tennessee E. Ford have a song called ‘16 Tons’?
He sang about coal, but maybe it started off about something else.
There’s a homosexual reference in there somewhere.
Cimbers rarely show up alone. Sherpas, guides and support staff are normally accompany climbers. Not all to the top, but from base camp at least.
Mr. Green Boots, died 1986, still on Everest.
Perpetual freezer, right?
They’re the ones who are climbing Mt. Everest. How ironic!
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