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rangerrebew:
How Much Trash Is on Mount Everest?
By Kimberly Hickok, Staff Writer | July 15, 2018 10:12am ET

 
Mount Everest has a mountain of a problem: human waste. And not just leftover camping meals, beer and fuel cans, but human poo, too.

So, how much poopy and other garbage calls the planet's highest mountain home?

A Tech Times story describes the mountain as "the world's highest garbage dump." But Alton Byers, a mountain geologist at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, said this description is not entirely accurate. The problem, he told Live Science, is worse in areas off the mountain than on it. In surrounding areas, you'll find dozens of landfills at various lodges and villages throughout Sagarmatha National Park, where Mount Everest resides.

https://www.livescience.com/63061-how-much-trash-mount-everest.html

thackney:
The extraordinary cost of retrieving dead bodies from Mount Everest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/27/the-extraordinary-cost-of-retrieving-dead-bodies-from-mount-everest/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4a2c7cae8fbb

...More than 200 bodies dot the mountain...

Cyber Liberty:

--- Quote from: thackney on July 15, 2018, 03:50:32 pm ---The extraordinary cost of retrieving dead bodies from Mount Everest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/27/the-extraordinary-cost-of-retrieving-dead-bodies-from-mount-everest/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4a2c7cae8fbb

...More than 200 bodies dot the mountain...

--- End quote ---

That was going to be my comment, too.  Never mind the poo, what about the corpses?

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