Otter to World [email protected]English • 1 year agoClimbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reachtheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up191
arrow-up191external-linkClimbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reachtheconversation.comOtter to World [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareFlying SquidlinkfedilinkEnglish22•1 year agoSome of the trash and human shit, maybe, but I think they’re never going to get the dead bodies down. Even the article suggests that probably won’t happen.
minus-squareAdmiral PatricklinkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year agoSome of them are used as landmarks, so they’d have to haul up new signage if they did manage to bring all the corpses down.
minus-squareFlying SquidlinkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year agoI wouldn’t say “let’s replace this dead body landmark with a sign” is the worst thing to do in general, but maybe on Everest…
Some of the trash and human shit, maybe, but I think they’re never going to get the dead bodies down. Even the article suggests that probably won’t happen.
Some of them are used as landmarks, so they’d have to haul up new signage if they did manage to bring all the corpses down.
I wouldn’t say “let’s replace this dead body landmark with a sign” is the worst thing to do in general, but maybe on Everest…