Otter to World NewsEnglish • 5 months agoClimbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reachtheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down12
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minus-squareFlying SquidMlinkEnglish21•5 months 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 PatricklinkfedilinkEnglish11•5 months 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 SquidMlinkEnglish17•5 months 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…