It takes 2-3 weeks to get from base camp to camp 4. So thats at least 3-4 days between camps.
I know lemmy has a thing about not pooping for 3 days, but to maintain a 3-day bowel movement cycle for 2 weeks is a bit far fetched.
The final ascent from camp 4 to summit is 10-20 hours, plus descent. Normally done in a single stretch, but likely still gonna need a shit.
So, Im going to say everyone that goes up it is gonna shit on the mountain
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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
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.
The first thing I want to know is who shits on the mountain? I mean taking a poo in base camp I can understand-- but on the way?
It takes 2-3 weeks to get from base camp to camp 4. So thats at least 3-4 days between camps.
I know lemmy has a thing about not pooping for 3 days, but to maintain a 3-day bowel movement cycle for 2 weeks is a bit far fetched.
The final ascent from camp 4 to summit is 10-20 hours, plus descent. Normally done in a single stretch, but likely still gonna need a shit.
So, Im going to say everyone that goes up it is gonna shit on the mountain
https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/how-long-does-it-take-to-climb-mount-everest/
What are you… you know what, never mind. I don’t want to know.
The original post appears to have disappeared, but heres a post that was crosposted to [email protected]
https://lemmy.world/post/455290
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Holy shit I had no idea it took 2-3 months to do this
When they have rest periods during days long climbs a tent camp moves with them. Pretty sure they also have a toilet.
Well, first paragraph of the article:
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
Whatever happened to “pack in, pack out”?
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.
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.
How will they get it from ‘the area it’s in’ to the trebuchet? Is there a drone idea for the last-metre work?
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.
Ohhh you could do the same thing with the corpses too! Looks like someone is getting a funeral after all!
It takes about a week to go from base camp to summit to base camp. Even the fastest ever time on this route is over eighteen hours