Wonder how much trash was left up there...

[Mook]

Thats Mt Everest by the way.

Click to read more...

 

[DEEZUZ]

At least there is a wide menu

 

[EmersonHart13]

Think of the poo

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Lolol and they wonder why so many people die up there. Fucking traffic jam

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I was just reading this story separately about the guy blogging/tweeting/whatever about waiting to continue his trek due to the traffic, and then dieing himself.

 

[blakbearddelite]

There is supposed to be a minimum amount of garbage that each climber is supposed to bring back with them. Whatever governing body says the average weight of garbage someone generates, each climber needs to bring that back down the mountain. I don't know how they enforce it, or what penalties may be imposed.

 

[Pressure Ratio]

I don't believe they take much up with them when going for the summit. The camps have sherpa taking things up and down with them. So like mentioned, the waste is probably not that bad at all. Other than human waste maybe?

Lolol and they wonder why so many people die up there. Fucking traffic jam

I think they said 11 people died so far this year. Sounds like the traffic jam is mainly to blame. People are stuck in the "death zone" with no oxygen.

It doesn't seem to be a schedule for different teams. So they all want to go at the best chance of making the summit.

 

[Chet Donnelly]

yeah...heard 11 are dead so far this year. F that!

 

[Mook]

I don't believe they take much up with them when going for the summit. The camps have sherpa taking things up and down with them. So like mentioned, the waste is probably not that bad at all. Other than human waste maybe?

.

Ya, totally not bad.

A team started a clean up imitative back in April I think..pretty sure I read that they had collected like 5,000 POUNDS of trash.

Edit: Correction, almost 7,000
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/asia/mount-everest-trash-cleanup-scli-intl/index.html

 

[BS ISF]

^^^this the trail is so packed that peeps can't get back down.

 

[Mook]

Go google image "trash on mt everest".

 

[CMNTMXR57]

So... When does the first oxygen tank station/Kwik-E-Mart (like a gas station), open up along one of the trails/ascents? Then have a chain of them as you go higher... The cost gets more and more.

You could retire a billionaire with all these fools.

 

[radioguy6]

First of all, NOPE. Have traffic jams always been an issue there? I hear the summit gets overcrowded too, very little space to take your FB selfie without risk of falling

 

[nytebyte]

With all the traffic they have on that mountain, you'd think they'd install a cable car lift by now.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Escalator...

 

[PANDA]

On a related note if you are on Instagram follow the account Insta_Wrecked. It shows how places like Santorini, Zion National Park, Machu Picchu, etc look on Social media, and how they look in real life with tourist traffic. Pretty eye opening.

 

[Mook]

Oh we are buttfucking EVERYTHING on this planet at a rapid scale.

 

[Kensington]

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Oh we are buttfucking EVERYTHING on this planet at a rapid scale.

And also regrowing it with great success in multiple areas.

 

[Mook]

Which is great, but I still believe we are destroying faster than we can repair.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Which is great, but I still believe we are destroying faster than we can repair.

China and India need to step up their game drastically.

 

[Mook]

And most of Earth would have to stop murdering most of the African wildlife population too.

 

[Pressure Ratio]

First of all, NOPE. Have traffic jams always been an issue there? I hear the summit gets overcrowded too, very little space to take your FB selfie without risk of falling

I think I remember watching a documentary years ago on the climbers and that mountain. I think it said in the late 70's companies started selling trips with guides to get you up the mountain. I think that made it more "cost effective" to take a shot at it. Before that the cost was so high most climbers needed sponsors or be very rich to set up a trip. These trips also probably gave climbers hope that they could actually make it to the top. And as others say these groups making money setting up trips more companies popped up offering the same services.

 

[EmersonHart13]

And most of Earth would have to stop murdering most of the African wildlife population too.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/05/29/elephant-hunting-botswana-newday-mckenzie-pkg-vpx.cnn

African country with the most elephants ends hunting ban
New Day

Botswana is overturning a ban, implemented in 2014, meant to protect elephants from hunters and poachers. Now Boatswain officials are pushing forward while conservationists are pushing back. CNN's David McKenzie reports. Source: CNN

 

[Kensington]

I think I remember watching a documentary years ago on the climbers and that mountain. I think it said in the late 70's companies started selling trips with guides to get you up the mountain. I think that made it more "cost effective" to take a shot at it. Before that the cost was so high most climbers needed sponsors or be very rich to set up a trip. These trips also probably gave climbers hope that they could actually make it to the top. And as others say these groups making money setting up trips more companies popped up offering the same services.

The movie Everest goes through and explains a lot of it, and the culture of the guided tours up the mountian