• The Chief of Nepal’s mountaineering association says that poo left by climbers on Mount Everest is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease.
• Ang Tshering says that Nepal’s government needs to address the faeces and urine left each season, given that more than 700 climbers and guides spend approximately 2 months on Everest’s slopes.
• Ang highlights that climbers spend considerable periods of time acclimatising around camps, which do not have toilets.
• Accordingly, climbers have been digging holes to leave their waste, which has been piling up for years.
• Last year, Nepal’s government imposed a new rule requiring each climber to return 8kg of rubbish to the base camp, being an estimation of each climber’s waste.
• Nepal’s mountaineering seasons commenced this week and runs through May.
• Mount Everest was first conquered in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzig Norgay.

Read more:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/03/mt-everest-human-poop_n_6793406.html

http://www.inquisitr.com/1891717/mount-everest-the-worlds-highest-waste-dump/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/too-much-human-poo-on-mount-everest-says-nepal

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