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HomeCategoryWorldThere’s too much poo on Mount Everest!
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There’s too much poo on Mount Everest!

The Chief of Nepal's mountaineering association says that poo left by climbers on Mount Everest is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease.
Posted by: admin , March 4, 2015
  • 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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Tags: ang Tshering, base, camp, climb, climber, disease, Edmund Hillary, faeces, Government, guide, hole, mount Everest, mountaineering, Nepal, pollution, Poo, season, slope, Tenzig Norgay, toilet, too much, urine, waste

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