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    Nepal wirft sein jahrzehntealtes Programm zur Säuberung des Mount Everest auf

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    1. OldManJeepin on

      Seriously….They need to ban anyone but pro’s from going up there to climb…That shit is ridiculous. Somebody tells me „Hey, I climbed Mt Everest“ and I’m like „So what…My Grandma did it when she was 80“!! LoL

    2. babarjango on

      About time they ditched that flop.
      11 years, $4k deposits, still 50t trash on Everest lmao
      Rangers at Camp 2 + drones? Nice idea

    3. mvallas1073 on

      Might just be easier and cheaper to rename it “Mount Trashmore” to simply dissuade anyone from climbing it anymore.

    5. B00marangTrotter on

      Wait until these fucks go to space instead, fucking space junk is going to be a huge problem.

    6. snuuginz on

      I’ve read extensively about Everest and the other high peaks in Asia, mostly from the perspective of professional climbers. Most of them have a simple solution to the problem with Everest amateurs:

      Ban bottled oxygen.

      No more oxygen canisters being littered on the slopes.

      Oh, you’re not strong enough to summit Everest without bottled oxygen? All good, just wander the trails below base camp, they’re beautiful.

      Climbing that high without oxygen is EXTREMELY challenging, it would wash out at least 90% of your summit-bagging tourists. Everest is comparatively a somewhat unique mountain compared to the other 8000m + mountains in that there’s not a lot of technical skill involved in climbing it. If you’re generally fit and use bottled oxygen with a paid guide group, you will most likely be able to summit Everest.

      There’s too much money in the tourist industry now, though, so it’ll never happen.

    7. AbleCained on

      The amount of rubbish in the beautiful places of Nepal will be its undoing. I’ve just completed a trek and was sad to see so much rubbish.. Everywhere…

    8. ShockedNChagrinned on

      I say double down and let the top eventually become the skeletal burial mound it’s destined to be

    9. arocks1 on

      It takes the average climber 5-6 weeks to climb Everest, they produce 26lbs of trash on average while waiting and the leave it behind.

    10. criclover69 on

      Eveytime the topic of everest comes up, reddit like to rehash the same old cliche that it’s so easy to climb, anyone can do it, etc.

      As a Nepali person who has been to the Basecamp, I can tell you, it’s not fucking easy, even with help. I would never even dream of going anywhere near the top.

      There’s two months in the whole year when it’s possible to climb, out of that maybe 10 days the weather is fine, so you have 20 days in the entire year to climb, of course there’s going to be a queue.

      Secondly, you only need to be fit. Yeah sure, of course you need to be fit but you also only need to be fit to be an Olympian. Only around 10000 people have climed everest in huma history, how many people in history have gone to the Olympics? Hundreds of thousands. Even more, there’s more than 12000 people who have won gold in modern Olympics history, so more people than have climbed everest.

      The rubbish is a huge issue but claiming anyone can climb everest is another of those reddit lies that always propagates it’s way to the top. You wouldn’t meet an Olympics gold medalist and say anyone can do it.

    11. Icantgoonillgoonn on

      Nepal should charge $10,000 non-refundable fee. It would probably weed out some potential climbers.

    12. OPA73 on

      I don’t know the average income in Nepal, but I suspect for $4,000 a month multiplied by the number of climbers a month allowed, you could have a small army of dedicated locals earning a good salary for their families, remove all of that waste in a few years. Or maybe just have a scale at base camp and pay by the pound or object.

    14. FriendshipOnly666 on

      Does anyone know if the Chinese side of the mountain is also as littered or not?

    15. Humble-Plankton2217 on

      Disney keeps raising prices and tourists keep flocking there.

      Maybe Everest can raise it’s prices and keep going until they reach a point that actually reduces the number of climbers.

      Why is it not possible to require people to bring everything back down that they took up with them?

    16. JayCDee on

      ITT a lot of people that have never set a foot above 3000m saying how easy it is to summit Everest.

    17. Concentrateman on

      Disgusting. I know Nepal needs the cash but they should just shut this down. Fuck bucket lists.

    19. jdbiggieboy_3402 on

      „leave only footprints“ policy. Charge for littering. It’s not that hard of a problem to solve

    21. Oerthling on

      Have climbers register everything they bring up. Fine them for everything they don’t bring back. Pay them for extra trash they bring down

    22. PlayAccomplished3706 on

      Here is a solution: stop issuing climbing permits until all trashes are removed. Sooner or later some rich asshole would cough enough money to get it all cleaned up in order to be able to climb it.

    23. ntgco on

      How about you mandate a strict inventory tracking system. Every oxygen bottle, food wrapper etc must be documented prior to ascent. And validated on your exit….otherwise it’s a $500K fine per climber.

      Pack out what you pack in…..or pay.

    26. TrioxinTwoFourFive on

      Just deny climbing permits unless the climber agrees to bring one thing down?    Too hard?  Dont go.    Maybe it will become exclusive again. 

    27. Initial_Present6209 on

      I would think that technology will help solve this problem eventually…. Drones or other remote vehicles/ robots.

    28. brakadlapa on

      Mankind is a festering parasite. I don’t remember which Song I got that from, but it’s true.

    29. groovyinutah on

      Really no point in doing so if you’re still going to have hundreds of people attempting to scale the mountain, by the time you’ve cleaned up the next batch of tourists will have trashed the place…

    31. lmyrs on

      That’s a misleading headline. I’m pretty sure that instead of relying on the climbers, they’re setting up another check point with the sherpas higher up the mountain. The sherpas always said that if they had the funding, they’d be able to do a better job keeping the trash off the mountain, and so they’re getting the funding.

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