People climbing Mount Everest will now have to bring their own poo back to base camp - as experts warn the world's highest mountain has 'begun to stink'

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 9, 2024 | Shivali Best

[C19fan]

It's something that features on many people's bucket lists.

But if you've always dreamed of climbing Mount Everest, new regulations may make you reconsider.

People who climb the world's highest mountain will now have to bring their own poo back to base camp.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Climbing Everest is nothing more than a real expensive tour.”

Have you done it?

[Hot Tabasco]

Have you done it?

No, I don't like expensive, high altitude GUIDED tours or long lines.

[Ge0ffrey]

If it’s on your bucket list, bring a bucket.

[Ge0ffrey]

You read wrong.

[crusty old prospector]

What if you have the scours, like from a Taco Bell Beefy Supreme Chalupa Grande?

[Libloather]

It would be frozen, no? Throw it downhill.

[Paal Gulli]

"WhileI've never met anyone who has climbed Everest I'd be much more impressed if I met someone who had summited K2 the second highest. It's a much harder climb and not for rich tourists because your chances of dying are much higher."

That's some circular logic right there.

[bgill]

Bring back the poo but leave the dead bodies. You’d think everything should be brought back.

[drSteve78]

So, inquiring minds want to know, do frozen poopsicles have a smell?

[CodeToad]

“If it’s on your bucket list, bring a bucket.”

You win!

[caver]

When caving on long and deep trips you are required to bring back your poo. They wrap the poo in plastic and roll it. They call them burritos. Some caves you cannot even pee in the cave. You carry a pee bottle. Don’t get your pee bottle mixed up with your drinking water.

[CodeToad]

There was nothing circular about it.

[wardaddy]

I somehow doubt this
Poop at those temps and that snow cover

We have several here who climb seriously

See what they surmise

[wardaddy]

It’s a bit more than that

I think it’s 6.5 miles of incline at 10-20% O2 we have in music city

And cold as hell

Windy

Snowblind and avalanche risk

Yes it’s easier than must of the big ones but it’s still a challenge and most don’t summit

It’s easier than winter ascent of McKinley which although much lower is still low air given oxygen at the poles thins more than at equator

And the cold is so wicked there and snow being walking distance literally from the ocean

Anyhow you have point that it is touristy nowadays

One point is Everest has more difficult approaches too but they are harder to access

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, it's the feces, not the dozens of corpses -- we know because a few years ago the Sherpas went up and disposed of Green Boots and the others near the main path of ascent.

[catnipman]

i suspect the REAL stink comes from the dozens of bodies of dead climbers left up there in situ ... the pictures are ghastly: mummified bodies dressed in colorful, brand-new-condition, non-biodegradable mountain climbing togs ...

[moovova]

Hopefully, they soon install sanitary napkin dispensers at the top...for menstruating men.

[Charles Martel]

What if you have the scours, like from a Taco Bell Beefy Supreme Chalupa Grande?

Wait for the puddle to freeze solid, then soar it down like a frisbee!

[Vaduz]

Mount Everest opening a drones for sale booth?.

[OneVike]

Don’t get you poo mixed up with your burrito.