and what is the fee to climb? Up to $100,000 US$?
Plus travel costs clothing & equipment etc .
The climbers can afford that.
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).
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.......
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.