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China requires Everest climbers to carry their waste out with them
inkstonenews.com ^ | 2/16/2019 | Mandy Zuo

Posted on 02/16/2019 9:54:10 AM PST by rktman

Littering on Everest is a significant issue, both on the base camps and higher up the mountain itself. In recent years both Nepal and China have implemented measures to try to force climbers to bring their waste down with them, and not leave it on the mountain.

Nepal in 2014 began charging a $4,000 garbage deposit that would be forfeited if climbers fail to return with their trash.

The government of the Tibet Autonomous Region statement announcing the closure called for further action to protect Mount Everest, saying that workers had collected some 9 tons of trash from above 17,000 feet. In the regions below that level, 370 tons of waste had been collected.

It said a task force of 200 people would be formed to clear the remaining garbage.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: everest; litterbugs; sherpas; trashpiles
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Just $4,000? I've seen pics of the garbage heap and at that rate, will we find some Bud cans on Mars if and when?
1 posted on 02/16/2019 9:54:10 AM PST by rktman
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The fatality rate of climbing Everest is 6.5%? You’ll have to carry out your dead too.


2 posted on 02/16/2019 9:56:18 AM PST by PGR88
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But they’ll just bring their garbage home and throw it all out the windows of their b m w’s


3 posted on 02/16/2019 9:58:04 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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"Mount Everest. Forbidding, aloof, terrifying. The mountain with the biggest tits in the world."

*GONG*

"START AGAIN!"


4 posted on 02/16/2019 10:00:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Nah, they just dump ‘em in a crevasse someplace so they pop out in 200 or 300 years and folks go “WTH”? :-)


5 posted on 02/16/2019 10:00:45 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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and what is the fee to climb? Up to $100,000 US$?

Plus travel costs clothing & equipment etc .

The climbers can afford that.


6 posted on 02/16/2019 10:02:52 AM PST by SMGFan
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This is one China policy I could not agree more with.


7 posted on 02/16/2019 10:02:55 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: PGR88

If you can get to them....

Those who fall land in the most inconvenient places, and those who merely die of exposure tend to disappear in snowbanks.

This is not like cleaning up the streets of San Francisco, you know.


8 posted on 02/16/2019 10:03:12 AM PST by alloysteel (History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill)
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LOL! Chicoms care about their environment? Naaa..they see these types as easy marks to make money off of.

Cripes, China is nothing more than a smokey factory waste land...and they’re worried about poop in the mountains? LOL!! More like worried about the chumps who they aren’t cashing in on.


9 posted on 02/16/2019 10:03:13 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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China requires Everest climbers to carry their waste out with them.

No $h!t?

Isn’t only half of Everest in China?

10 posted on 02/16/2019 10:04:06 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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Highest elevated garbage dump in the world.


11 posted on 02/16/2019 10:04:49 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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I can just hear it now, “Are we there yet, are we there yet?!”

rwood


12 posted on 02/16/2019 10:04:55 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: dfwgator

You’re thinking the Grand Teton.


13 posted on 02/16/2019 10:06:53 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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Hairdressers Expedition on Everest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngC_4j1gjMY


14 posted on 02/16/2019 10:08:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Most of these climbers are flaming leftists so I am not surprised at their propensity for trashing their path.


15 posted on 02/16/2019 10:10:03 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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16 posted on 02/16/2019 10:10:59 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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and what is the fee to climb? Up to $100,000 US$?

They charge you to lose you fingers toes and nose from
Frostbite.

If I was rich and bored I could think of other entertaining things to do.

When I get all bundled up in winter clothes I usually am carrying a high powered rifle for hunting. (Was…I’m too old now).

17 posted on 02/16/2019 10:13:10 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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Put up a few signs, like they do in Gun Free Zones! Problem solved.

That will be $4,000.00, Please. Cash, no checks or credit cards. ;)


18 posted on 02/16/2019 10:15:17 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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> Hairdressers Expedition on Everest <

Before clicking on your link I guessed it was Monty Python. And I was right.


19 posted on 02/16/2019 10:16:42 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Maybe that’s where all the poo on San Francisco’s streets came from. Naw.


20 posted on 02/16/2019 10:17:55 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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