• @Rapidcreek
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    9 months ago

    When they have rest periods during days long climbs a tent camp moves with them. Pretty sure they also have a toilet.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      Well, first paragraph of the article:

      Mounting piles of human poop are kicking up a stink on Mountain Everest, much to the annoyance of local authorities who are now instructing climbers they must bring their dirty business back to base camp.

      So, even if they have a toilet, it isnt magically transporting the shit off the mountain.
      Or, there are climbers without these magical toilets.
      Or, there are enough climbers not removing their waste from everest for it to be causing a problem.

      People clearly shit on everest.
      Clearly, not everyone is removing their 2 weeks worth of waste

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        9 months ago

        Waste is a problem on Everest and they have been working on it for years. If frozen .poop is a problem, they should clean it up for sure.

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          29 months ago

          Years? Give me 8 good men, three months, and a little discretionary spending and I’ll have all the shit off that mountain. We’ll carry up the components to build a small trebuchet and launch platform, pieces at a time over several ascents, and once it’s built proceed to sling all the shit 350m off the side of the mountain. It’ll be easier to clean up once it’s collected at the base and people aren’t risking death just to get to the area it’s in.

          For a real professional amount of money, we can airdrop the trebuchet materials with a heli and only make one trip up for construction and operation.

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            29 months ago

            people aren’t risking death just to get to the area it’s in.

            How will they get it from ‘the area it’s in’ to the trebuchet? Is there a drone idea for the last-metre work?

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              19 months ago

              Nah that’s what our 8 men are for. Someone got there to take a shit originally, someone ought to be able to get there to retrieve it.

          • @FollyDolly
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            29 months ago

            Ohhh you could do the same thing with the corpses too! Looks like someone is getting a funeral after all!