this is why you can no longer get a permit to climb unless you agree to bring down more wight than you go up with, there's also clean up teams that go up every year and try and remove as much as they can, including the remains of people who have died on the mountain, although generally they move the bodies to a less or non visible space, because it's very difficult to bring that much weight back down.
"I hiked Everest and all I got was this 20lb bag of poop."
Imo they should just setup a giant slide to go down.
Just throw/roll the trash/bodies a little further down the mountain as you come across it. Eventually, it'll make its way down.
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Great graphic novel, "High Crimes." A disgraced Olympic snowboarder now works as a corpse retriever on Mt. Everest. She and her partner charge $50,000.00 for the return of the dear departed.
https://comichub.com/products/high-crimes-graphic-novel-mature-
Just put on hold at the library!
Don't get me started...
Too late...
'The Harlem Shuffle' by Colson Whitehead.
'Red Harvest' by Dashiell Hammett.
'The Secret Place' by Tana French...
Save yourself, it's too late for me...
Red Harvest is so good.
Many many thanks! This does look right my alley.
Enjoy.
my guy looking like a lethal company employee
Won’t this be great once the earth warms up 5 degrees?
Ooh when the ice melts, an 8 km high torrent of shit and disintegrating corpses will come down… hmmm.
For a while, yes. But the whole reason why there is so much shit up there is that the low temperature keeps it from getting processed by micro organisms, no? So once that really gets going we should see a wholly new ecosystem up there of plants, fungi, and animals that previously never inhabited the area.
Note: this is my semi-educated take and I would love for an actual biologist to comment on how climate change will transform Everest.
It's the lack of oxygen up there too, and I don't think climate change will affect that
There's anaerobic decomposers, and plenty of organisms have wider tolerances than we do
If I ever meet someone who boasts about climbing Everest, I will be sure to ask them questions like "How many dead bodies and how much trash did you see?" and "Does it smell like doodoo the whole way up, or does it get cold enough that you can't smell the piles upon piles of human shit?"
They're mad about all of the human shit? What about all of the human bodies?
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