http://time.com/3766862/mountaineers-everest-trash/
How does this make you feel, /out/?
aggravated. but if the fact that everest has become a shithole is news to you you should get out more.
>>758337
posted before i read link. moderately less aggravated, but skeptical. how high do they plan on cleaning? how much of a dent is 8800 lbs going to make?
not that it matters to me. i'll stick to my local 13-14k peaks, thanks.
I used to have a very romantic perception of Everest ever since I was a kid in grade school who read Into Thin Air and saw the imax film Everest. Then I started reading about the traffic jams, the garbage strewn everywhere, and the shit piles frozen all over the place. No matter where people go, they leave their mark, for better or for worse. There's a lot of other peaks out there to summit, with a lot less people on them.
>>758335
Makes me think there must be some fucking incredible cognitive dissonance going on with climbers. You hear them talking endlessly about their feelings of being at one with the earth and all that bullshit, and then this.
Everest has too much of a reputation. Jeff and Linda from Texas don't care about the nature, they just want something to brag about at dinner parties.
>>758352
Yeah true. Shit like that makes me want to punch cunts.
>>758335
What is the issue? I'm sure this is one of the areas hikers have designated for leaving things/trash. By having designated areas it doesn't end up all over the mountain.
Same thing happens on the AT
>>758335
Mount everest has become a meme.
>>758335
Happy that the Indian army is cleaning it up.
Isn't the sherpas to blame? They get payed to carry the stuff needed up but I'm pretty sure that also includes getting down everything, including the garbage.
Now who was the genius that thought that sending the indian army to clean all that shit up was a good idea? Enjoy your permafrost poo cairns up there
>>758518
>permafrost poo cairns
kek
I now have a new /out goal
>>758352
Same thing goes for most through hikers on the JMT
>>758335
makes me kinda feel ok about the mountain getting revenge.
>>758623
Fucking idiots shitting the place up with their dead corpses
Just more shit to clean up
>>758637
Fuck LNT
>>758641
Fuck dead people
>>758642
>Fuck dead people
preferably before they're cold.
>>758335
I don't really see what the hoopla is all about. The next storm is just going to bury the trash anyway. Basically that is the same way landfills work. Dig down, layer of trash, backfill, repeat.
>>758654
MFW Mt Everest is just one giant frozen cairn of shit
>>758351
Everest is pretty much "How much money can you throw at us: The Climb," so naturally you're going to get a lot of assholes
>>758518
Designated shitting trails
