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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The irony is that most Everest climbers are hard core environmentalists and yet they leave a pile of sh^t on the mountain.
“....cleaning up the streets of San Francisco....” Hmmmm. I wonder which is more hazardous? ;-)
IOW——typical ‘gorons’.
Everest has become nothing more than an expensive tourist destination. Heck, for an extra fee, most outfitters will even teach their clients how to climb.......
This is one China policy I could not agree more with.
The US requires Denali climbers to carry out ALL their waste.
They have been leaving the dead up there for years.
Should be doing it in the first place without having to be told to by the government.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Everest is basically a giant $hitscicle with bodies sprinkled in for the chunks.
A lot of the "garbage" is discarded oxygen canisters. It's not like it's McDonald's wrappers or plastic straws.
The body of George Mallory, possibly the first man to summit, is still up there. He vanished in 1924 and was only rediscovered a few years ago, reconizably intact.
Climbers on the Northern Route used to use the body of a climber they called "Green Boots" as a landmark.
Everest is a graveyard.
Dirty white boys need to learn to clean up after themselves.
with bodies sprinkled in for the chunks.
Sort of like corn?
lol...sure!
Love Danali. Almost bought 75 acres in Healy.
At Everest Base Camp Chicoms should certify departing old trash then stamp that as delivered at a designated deposit site, somewhere from where the government can dispose of it in bulk afforably. Require certificates of certain amounts of old trash already removed for new climbing permits. The climbers may not need to personally remove all the trash, at least not at lower altitudes, but the would collectively pre-fund a trash removal industry. For higher altitude or difficult to reach and recover trash offer premium pricing on its removal. There will inevitably be some corruption, there doubtless already is in getting climbing permits. Let those on top of their graft keep it so long as they can show the trash problem is improving.
Many trust-funders love going to Everest with a dozen of their friends and think nothing of dropping $250,000 on the venture. $4,000 fine? Pocket change to them. Make it $400,000 and they might blink.
Slopes and crevasses are littered with the dead. One route passes by several famous dead.
Yep. A place where sherpas all but carry wealthy "mountaineers" to the top just so they can check off a bucket list item.
China could shut the place down and I wouldn't care less.
I think you actually have to have a couple screws loose to have an obsession on climbing mountains where you need oxygen gear and the chance of dying is upwards of 30%
To put it plain and simple go to a nice mountain range like the Sierras is choose a 13 or 14,000 foot peak and climb in a couple days and camp out it’s very pleasant beautiful
lakes glaciers everything you ever wanted
the temperature is nice too and no weather
I mean come on.
And certainly if you’re going to climb a mountain big boy or girl you need to be able to do it on your own
no Sherpas no help no nothing.
Yes. The climate on the mountains does not lend itself to the natural degradation of waste.
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