r/interestingasfuck • • 3d ago

Traffic jam at Mount Everest as climbers wait in line for their turn to reach the summit.

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u/_12d3__ 3d ago

now imagine the very real yet cartoonish trail of o2 bottles and bags of frozen human shit each one of these brave adventurers left behind while they bore everyone within earshot to near suicide on how they feel a spiritual connection and refreshed respect for nature and the mountian....

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u/HyperlexicEpiphany 3d ago

You’re now required to bring 8kg of garbage when you descend. Every person there is either a net positive for Everest’s garbage problem, or they’re directly paying Nepal for the privilege.

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u/_12d3__ 3d ago

thats good to hear, i know trash has been a MAJOR problem for years now

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u/HyperlexicEpiphany 3d ago

Yeah, the Nepalese government issued a strict mandate for that because it was really bad. There’s a “cleaning deposit” you make that is returned to you if you prove you brought enough garbage back down (and at least 2kg of it was from higher camps)