All the Crap on Everest
By Rocky Thompson on October 28th, 2011
Photo by Everest Summiteers Association
The Everest Summiteers Association is trying to get the Nepalese government to install portable toilets on the hike to base camp. It seems that the 35,000 visitors and 80,000 Nepalese guides are making something of a mess in the villages on the route as well as all along the route. The group Saving Mount Everest hauled away eight tons of garbage from the mountain this year, including about five tons that had been piled in the villages along the base camp route. I say skip the pit toilets and go straight to laying pipes all the way up the mountain.
via Get Outdoors
