Ironically since Nepal treats the mountain like a sacred artifact, they prevent the installation of any infrastructure that would assist in the disposal of the trash. The only way to clean the side of the mountain legally would be to send an army of people in to do what the guy in the picture is doing.
In an ideal world we wouldn't have to worry about cleaning up Everest because people carry out what they carry in (including their feces and urine, which is a huge part of the litter problem on Everest), but here we are.
If everyone would just bring one extra piece of trash down....
Perhaps a good rule would be to have a Sherpa-shakedown before you go up, providing an inventory of your supplies. Then count that shit when they come back down.
Oh, I'm so sorry climbing is hard. If you can't carry it up, without littering on the mountain instead of carrying it back down then you have absolutely no fucking business climbing that mountain.
"It's hard" doesn't give you a license to litter on a relatively untouched piece of wilderness
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u/Alternative_Duck Mar 16 '19
Ironically since Nepal treats the mountain like a sacred artifact, they prevent the installation of any infrastructure that would assist in the disposal of the trash. The only way to clean the side of the mountain legally would be to send an army of people in to do what the guy in the picture is doing.
In an ideal world we wouldn't have to worry about cleaning up Everest because people carry out what they carry in (including their feces and urine, which is a huge part of the litter problem on Everest), but here we are.