Garry Porter remembers being at Mount Everest’s south base camp in 2003, watching Sherpa porters haul down blue barrels filled to the brim with human feces. “What they do is, they have a poop barrel, and they haul it to a teahouse village,” Porter said, explaining how Sherpas in Nepal deal with the waste left behind by the estimated 700 climbers and guides who spend two months on Everest every climbing season.

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  • Everest Season Kicks Off with New Rules, Big Crowds, and Poop Bags
    The most cumbersome rule may be the new mandate that all climbers must carry their human waste down off the mountain in biodegradable bags and deposit it at a collection center at Base Camp. The local ...
    04/23/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
  • Climbing Season on Mount Everest Is Starting Later Than Normal
    Dangers in the Khumbu Icefall forced rope fixers to chart a different route. Now, some expedition operators are scrambling to stay on schedule.
    04/19/2024 - 11:51 am | View Link
  • The Nepali Army Is Removing Trash and Bodies From Mount Everest
    Every spring, hundreds of mountaineers from around the world travel to the Himalayas in hopes of summiting Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain. As they make the slow, arduous and sometimes ...
    04/16/2024 - 9:12 am | View Link
  • Climbers Turn Everest Into Giant Toilet Drowning in Feces
    Referred to as 'Garbage Mountain' in the year 2000, Everest now stands as a stark reminder of the toll humanity has taken on the environment.
    04/15/2024 - 5:57 am | View Link
  • Mount Everest: Nepal to remove trash and dead bodies from world’s tallest mountain
    As the 2024 Himalayan mountaineering season gets underway, another high-altitude project is in the works: removing tons of trash from Mount Everest ... plaguing Everest in recent years. One of the ...
    04/8/2024 - 6:11 pm | View Link
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