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I've been packing out my poo for decades. Sure, I started when camping in the snow, but when I learned how bad human crap is in the back country I decided to d
by gumby 3y ago
I've been packing out my poo for decades. Sure, I started when camping in the snow, but when I learned how bad human crap is in the back country I decided to do it in the summer too (you already have to pack out the rest of your trash, including used TP).
Learning that people don't do this on a place like Everest says more about the human trash who climb it than it does about anything else.
- barbazoo 3y agoI've been mildly interested in Everest but never thought about human waste. What else are they doing there, just literally leaving their shit on the mountain? It's not that you can easily bury it even. I know of the garbage issues up there but with this, it must be really gross.
- sigwinch28 3y agoThey leave oxygen tanks littered up there. They leave human bodies up there, too, but those are usually moved out of view.
- lm28469 3y agoThat's what I was going to comment, if they don't even bother bringing back the deads you can be sure they leave everything they can to save weight
- gumby 3y agoI admit I haven’t climbed Everest but an important principle of the backcountry (or elsewhere in nature) is “Leave no Trace”. But Everest sounds like an urban environment.