Posted on 09/05/2026 11:55:21 AM PDT by Libloather
Urine trouble, Mount Everest.
After standing the test of time for 50 million years, the world’s tallest mountain is under threat from an unlikely source: our pee.
Urine deposited on glaciers is enough to melt over 150 tons of ice and snow on Mount Everest every year, according to an a-thaw-calyptic study in the Regional Environmental Change scientific journal, as reported by the Independent.
“Urine, with a temperature of around 37°C (human body temperature), causes the ice to melt,” wrote the study authors, who were sent by Nepal’s Survey Department to determine the impact of humans on Everest.
The international team of scientists studied the Khumbu Glacier, the home of the Everest base camp on the mountain’s Nepalese side. Hundreds of people congregate there each year before attempting to summit the 29,035-foot wonder.
These throngs have turned this majestic pinnacle into a “Burning Man”-esque tent city producing disruptive noise, Himalayan trash mounds, and of course, mountains of human waste.
While climbers have been required to pack out their poop in bags since 2024, climbers still relieve themselves directly onto the ice.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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The ultimate DIY hack.
Zappa had you covered
The author must be smoking something.
The camps look like garbage dumps. We can’t expect rich environmentalist to pack out their own garbage.
Do like Kevin Costner in Waterworld.
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I saw Waterworld, but I don’t recall this bit of data. Wouldn’t he have just peed in the water?
AOC is trying to amend her story but if the ENTIRE PLANET isn’t gone in 4.39 years, I’m calling her on it. She’s gonna be president, ya know. Have they counted her eggs yet?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns, ‘World Is Going to End in 12 Years,’ Reiterating Claims of Recent U.N. Climate Change Report
This is just a guess, but looking at the glacial moraines that glacier has mostly been retreating over the ions with a likely surge during the mini ice age. S**t and piss isn’t going to make a significant difference IMO...
You just came up with a great band-name.
“The Sublimates”
He saved to drink.
And,it’s not “our pee”....its the idle rich with nothing to really do.
“They need to build permanent facilities at the base camp.”
They won’t be hard to find if they write their name.
wy69
The Abominable Snowman is going to go up there and rub their noses in it.
“Bad mountain climbers! Bad!”
The authors of the report are referred to as “scientists that.” That makes me very wary. If they’d been referred to as “experts,” I could dismiss the report out of hand.
Of course I think you’re on to something. But I’d also agree that the trash field is a disgrace.
Hey...those hot dogs and sodas gotta go somewhere.
By the way, in that graphic above, the hot dog vendor was Photoshopped...the line of climbers were not. That was in 2019.
The mountain will survive the yellow threat.
Hahahaha I’ve never seen that! That was great...:)
He saved to drink.
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Oh aargh! I’m sorry I asked.
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