• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    this is why you can no longer get a permit to climb unless you agree to bring down more wight than you go up with, there’s also clean up teams that go up every year and try and remove as much as they can, including the remains of people who have died on the mountain, although generally they move the bodies to a less or non visible space, because it’s very difficult to bring that much weight back down.

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      probably an estimation based on the supplies itinerary & time spent climbing, up to a certain point before they told people to bring their poop back with them i think it’s safe to assume nobody did

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      You lnow how many people have climbed, you know the average weight of a human dookie, and you know how many times people ahit in average each day. You know that no one is bringing those dookies down, so you have a rough idea of how much shit is on the mountain.

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      Ooh when the ice melts, an 8 km high torrent of shit and disintegrating corpses will come down… hmmm.

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      6 days ago

      For a while, yes. But the whole reason why there is so much shit up there is that the low temperature keeps it from getting processed by micro organisms, no? So once that really gets going we should see a wholly new ecosystem up there of plants, fungi, and animals that previously never inhabited the area.

      Note: this is my semi-educated take and I would love for an actual biologist to comment on how climate change will transform Everest.

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    If I ever meet someone who boasts about climbing Everest, I will be sure to ask them questions like “How many dead bodies and how much trash did you see?” and “Does it smell like doodoo the whole way up, or does it get cold enough that you can’t smell the piles upon piles of human shit?”

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    6 days ago

    They’re mad about all of the human shit? What about all of the human bodies?