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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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To: I want the USA back

So storing a pristine 67 427 cobra would be good there? LOL!


41 posted on 02/16/2019 12:14:59 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Waste? Does this mean that the chicoms have been allowing hidebeast to climb Everest?


42 posted on 02/16/2019 12:40:21 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Lion Den Dan
Most of these climbers are flaming leftists so I am not surprised at their propensity for trashing their path.

Yeah. Everest is as bad as a pro-choice rally.

43 posted on 02/16/2019 12:48:22 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: SuperLuminal
Waste? Does this mean that the chicoms have been allowing hidebeast to climb Everest?

Of course. She claims she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary even though he hadn't scaled Everest until a few years after she was born.

44 posted on 02/16/2019 12:54:15 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: Truthoverpower
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

Today's Everest climb is already laid out with ropes and ladders and all the other stuff that makes walking simpler..........

45 posted on 02/16/2019 1:13:52 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: rktman

Democrat solution: Put trash bins up there (and, of course, force people to separate their trash).


46 posted on 02/16/2019 3:15:28 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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The problem is that they don’t have “Litter Free Zone” signs along the trail.


47 posted on 02/16/2019 4:54:07 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: BobL

I do single stream. It all goes n the same bin.


48 posted on 02/16/2019 6:41:00 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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