Thus, they want to reduce the amount of garbage on the mountain.
People climbing Everest will now have to clean up their faeces and bring them back to base camp for disposal.
About it writes BBC.
“Our mountains have started to stink,” said Mingma Sherpa, head of Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality.
The municipality, which covers much of the Everest region, introduced the new rule as part of wider measures being implemented. Due to extreme temperatures, excrement left on Everest does not decompose completely.
“We receive complaints that human stools are visible on the rocks and some climbers are getting sick. This is unacceptable and undermines our image,” adds Mingma.
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Climbers attempting to summit Everest, the world’s highest peak, and nearby Mount Lhotse will be told to buy so-called poo bags at base camp, which will be “checked on return.”
During the climbing season, climbers spend most of their time at base camp, acclimatizing to the altitude, where individual tents are set up as toilets and barrels are placed underneath to collect excrement. But once they begin their journey, things get difficult. Most climbers and support staff dig holes, but the higher you go on the mountain, the less snow in some places, so they relieve themselves in the open. Very few people bring their excrement back in biodegradable bags during the climb to the summit of Everest, which can take several weeks.
Litter remains a huge problem on Everest and other mountains in the region, although more clean-up campaigns are being carried out.
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“Waste remains a major problem, especially in higher camps where you cannot reach,” said Chiring Sherpa, director general of the non-governmental organization Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC).
Although there are no official figures, his organization estimates that between the first camp at the base of Everest and the fourth camp, closer to the summit, there are about three tons of human excrement.
“It is believed that half of this number is in the South Col, also known as Camp Four,” Chiring says.
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Stefan Keck, an international mountain guide who also organizes Everest expeditions, said the South Col had earned a reputation as an “open toilet.”
With permission from the Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality, the SPCC is now purchasing about 8,000 poo bags from the US for about 400 foreign climbers and 800 support staff members for the upcoming climbing season, which starts in March. These bags contain chemicals and powders that make human excrement hard and practically odorless.
Recall, a man with three fingers and no legs climbed Everest. He became the first multiple amputee to reach the summit.
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2024-02-12 04:50:14
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