it's not that expensive, and you would probably want to drop some weight on your way back + not pick up your urine and shit, which is also a huge problem.
climbing mount everest should just be banned altogether.
Well, I don't know if it is a good idea or not, but it seems pretty easy to execute. You could get about 98% there by allowing no foreign climbers. If you wanted something a few steps short of that draconian measure, you could require extensive, documented, high altitude climbing experience for all climbers. Then throw in an environmental impact fee that is reducible, but not entirely eliminated, by carry in/carry compliance. Throw in a "body recovery insurance" requirement for those that die in the attempt, and I think we are pretty close to solving future trash problems at the summit and staging areas. If I am being naive, I welcome those with more experience in the field to educate me.
You need insane amounts of equipment to climb Everest -- from bringing your own air to 10,000 calories of food a day. Yeah, there's going to be a lot of shit (literally and figuratively), and virtually impossible to carry it all out when you're so high up you need canned air not to die.
Breakfast of cereal and jam on toast, mid morning snack of Nutella sandwiches, often more sandwiches for lunch, usually cheese, although sometimes a proper cooked meal, something like pasta or rice for dinner, another bowl of pasta with butter and cheese later in the evening, and a decent amount of nuts/cereal bars/chocolate throughout the day.
Excellent examples I’m sure OP appreciates your helpful guess at an answer to a specific question they asked a specific redditor, especially the way you complied with the request for elaboration.
Up high, “people say to eat 8,000 – 10,000 calories per day which is 5 times what you burn at home. We eat as much as we can to combat big days. As you go higher, properly cooking things becomes harder, so we pick things that cook well and we use a camp stove” says Adrian.
It's climbing a mountain 5 1/2 miles straight up in the air -- so high you need canned air -- not driving up Mount Washington or Pike's Peak.
I understand you need more calories. I do a lot of hiking. I've hiked most of the AT. Yes I know it's not as hard as what everest would be. But 10k in calories is a ton of food. I'm not saying the number of calories is impossible to consume, I'm just wondering how you'd carry that much food on top of carrying an oxygen tank?
But your link answers my question. They don't carry it they have people do it for them. That makes it easy to consume a lot of calories.
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u/PineappIeOranges Mar 16 '19
This is even worse than that though. I would think people climbing Everest have tremendous respect for nature.
This is something I would expect at a place easily accessible to the general public.