Bone-chilling winds and extreme cold will not be an excuse for not cleaning up after yourself at the world’s tallest peak. Mount Everest climbers will now have to clean their own poo, which usually does not fully degrade in extreme cold.
Troubled with stinking snow and rocks covered with human stool, Nepal authorities will instruct climbers to buy 'poop bags' at the base camp before they set out for their expedition to Mount Everest and Lhotse.
Municipal chairman Mingma Sherpa told BBC that the poop bags carried by the climbers will be checked after the climb. “Our mountains have begun to stink,” he told the outlet.
No makeshift toilets are available for the climbers once they go past the base camp. They usually dig a hole in the ice. However, climbers are forced to do their business in the open when they are higher up on the mountain.
“Mountaineers have been using such bags on Mount Denali and in the Antarctic as well, that is why we have been advocating for it,” Mingma Sherpa told BBC.
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