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. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Poopsicles?
Global warming will wash it all down hill.
What temperature are you assuming? I’m thinking the temperature is never above freezing at that altitude . . . air is mighty thin, too - roughly about 1/4 as much as at sea level, I’m estimating.
Supposedly, the premier climber of Mount Everest led to the naming of our PIAPS – Thus, it’s only appropriate that with HRC we’re dealing with a pile of $#!+ .....
indeed!
amazing...
hey that looks a BIT....like Hillary Clinton....
When reading the article, I saw THIS.
You can earn 13K/yr selling your fecal matter.
Is there an IRS form for that “income”?
Poop, they only take poop from Massachusetts.
Make a simple rule in order to get he permit to climb....what goes up with you, comes down with you.
Sir Edmund Hillary’s turd is still there?
It provides bragging rights to people who place a great deal of importance on that type of thing. Personally, I’m more impressed with somebody who has completed Ranger School or SEAL training.
Everest is also the worlds highest garbage dump.
Not necessarily so at those temperatures....
The last thing I read about Green Boots, he had disappeared. They thought maybe he had gotten carried away by a snowslide or something, but he was no longer being used as a landmark.
“pyramids of human excrement befouling the high camps”
So it does run downhill. Good to remember.
There Are Over 200 Bodies on Mount Everest, And They’re Used as Landmarks
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-over-200-bodies-on-mount-everest-and-theyre-used-as-landmarks-146904416/?no-ist
Bump For Laterviewing
“Fecal Time Bomb”
I’m sure the producers of the Sharknado movie will be all over this...
It's called Congress.
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