24,000 pounds of garbage were just removed from Mount Everest, leading to the discovery of 4 bodies

[mahatmakanejeeves]

24,000 pounds of garbage were just removed from Mount Everest, leading to the discovery of 4 dead bodies

BY SOPHIE LEWIS
UPDATED ON: JUNE 6, 2019 / 10:21 PM / CBS NEWS

The Nepalese government has removed just over 24,000 pounds of trash from Mount Everest, according to The Associated Press. During their cleanup of the world's highest mountain, cleaners also uncovered four dead bodies.

Among the 11 tons of recovered trash from the 45-day project are food wrappers, cans, bottles and empty oxygen cylinders, Tourism Department official Danduraj Ghimire said. Cleaning up the mountain has been extremely difficult due to unpredictable weather conditions, inaccessibility of certain areas and the inherent dangers involved.

Ghimire said the four dead bodies were found by the cleaners in melting snow and were taken to base camp before being flown to a hospital in the capital for identification, AP reports. None of the bodies have been identified and it is not known when they died.

Some of the waste was flown to Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, in army helicopters. Officials presented it to recyclers in a ceremony to officially conclude to clean up project, the AP reports. "Unfortunately, some garbage collected in bags at the South Col could not be brought down due to bad weather," Ghimire said in a statement Wednesday.
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[cbdo2007]

1. They should charge a $1,000,000 fine for littering, and make the people making the mess

clean it up or pay for it.

It's not like the local park in my neighborhood where it is freely used and they wouldn't know who left it...they know who all has been up there.

[gtar100]

2. One would think mountaineers would have an appreciation for taking their garbage back with them

and not trashing the place.

[DBoon]

3. These are not mountaineers

They are the obscenely wealthy looking for a status symbol vacation

[malaise]

7. Thread winner n/t

[bahrbearian]

9. Trophy hunters , if you will.

[Blue_true]

24. WAMMMM!!! nt

[lunasun]

8. Meh elites looking for a cool selfie at the summit is more like it . They might tell you Nepal is

not thier home, so who cares

Does this look like a good time in the outdoors ??

[gtar100]

21. OMG no, not at all

Yuck!

[Blue_true]

25. Is that picture for real?

If so, why bother? Being on a nude beach for 90 year olds would be more stimulating.

[lunasun]

34. CBS news link from the OP so I assume so -dated 5/22/19 small window for good weather

caption :
On May 22, 2019, a long queue of mountain climbers line a path on Mount Everest. About half a dozen climbers died on Everest last week most while descending from the congested summit during only a few windows of good weather each May

I dunno about being on a nude beach with 90 yrs but at least I ain’t gonna fall to my death there
Yea no just no on that crazy crowded climb and dangerous descent

[DesertRat]

36. Yes, it is. There was a 2 hour wait at the top

Climbers reported stepping over newly dead bodies to get to the summit. Gotta get that selfie pic!

[Blue_true]

37. What in the hell is wrong with people?!!!! nt

[Dave Starsky]

38. That is just fucking ridiculous.

I guess I've always envisioned that there would be relatively few people there at the top. That's like the line to get into a Pink Floyd concert.

[Iggo]

40. Mountaineers would. Not these fucks.

(By the way, I tried to choose a pic without dead bodies in it. If there's dead bodies in this pic, let me know. I'll take it down. I don't do death porn.)

(Also by the way, the fact that it was pretty tough to find a pic like this that DIDN'T show them walking past dead bodies says something else about these pieces of shit.)

[ProudLib72]

4. Just look at this picture from the article!

This is INSANE!

[Skittles]

6. it is pathetic

[smirkymonkey]

10. I can't believe these people.

They are like the people on Facebook who live after the opinions of others and for their images, except that they are richer and dumber. They risk their lives to get the ultimate selfie, along with other rich, bored sheep and then it's on to the next pointless trophy adventure. How could anyone possibly find THAT exciting or fulfilling?

I don't know, I just don't get it.

[ProudLib72]

11. And yet, right next door is K2

In 2016, more than 110 foreign climbers, guides, and porters will attempt the Abruzzi Spur, the main route up the southeast ridge of K2. To put that in perspective, there have been less than 400 summits in the entire history of K2, whereas on Everest in the 2016 season alone, close to 600 climbers were projected to have summited (although the final number is still being tallied).
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/destinations/asia/k2/climbing-k2-compared-to-everest/

I would much rather climb Cerro Torre. Now THAT is a real climb.

[nmgaucho]

12. I'll stick to Colorado Fourteener's

and Mount Whitney eventually

[ProudLib72]

13. Did I say Cerro Torre?

I meant Grays and Torreys!

Last time I went up Grays, I got altitude sickness and literally had to run down to lower elevation.

[nmgaucho]

20. I knocked off 4 last summer

Elbert, Massive, Uncompaghre and Sneffels. Going to try Harvard and Huron this summer if I'm up to it but age is catching up fast

[nmgaucho]

22. What part of Colorado are you in?

I love the San Juans down near Silverton/Durango/Ouray

[ProudLib72]

30. Right now I'm in Boulder

I'm moving down to Elizabeth soon for a new job. I did live in Durango for two years 2014-2016.

[Blue_true]

27. The true only fear that I have is heights. I would not climb that thing if

if someone threatened to shoot me dead and meant it. I am THAT afraid of high places. But flying is ok, as long as the plane is big, no small planes, no helicopters, no damned flying on kites behind boats.

[ProudLib72]

33. I used to do really scary, stupid stuff as a teenager

I was a damned good rock climber, and I had a lot of free time on my hands. I would just go out and solo climbs (no rope) because no one was available to climb with. Back then, obviously, heights didn't bother me. Now they have begun to bother me a little. I guess you get wiser as you get older?

[Blue_true]

35. Either wiser or our bodies are less tolerant to injury.

I was not terribly wild when young, but as a newly minted engineer in a new area, I went out alone and took on the most difficult natural challenge there. I am lucky that I didn't die that day, I still cringe when I think of that choice. The place had all types of challenges, falls into rocks, rattlesnakes, you name it.

[Blue_Tires]

39. It doesn't help that expedition groups are highly competitive

and many have even advertised that they can get people to the top even if they don't have a single day of climbing experience...

[RhodeIslandOne]

17. Truly ridiculous

How can anyone “enjoy” that?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

32. The most frightening aspect of this photo is (correct me if I'm wrong)....

that there's people trying to go in both directions.......

Ya go up, ya gotta come down.

I'm a former avid caver and I think we had far more respect for the earth than these fools. Cavers take nothing but photos and leave nothing but footprints.

KY....

[MineralMan]

5. Tourists!

Use it up, then drop it. I hate that attitude.

[Beringia]

14. How come their families did not claim their bodies or report them missing

[Codeine]

15. I'm sure they were reported missing.

It’s just that their bodies weren’t located until they were stumbled across in this cleanup effort. Now they have to be identified against the list of lost climbers so the corpses can be claimed.

[RhodeIslandOne]

16. They probably did report them missing

But if you have no idea where exactly they died in the mountain....You can’t really search.

Some just fall to their deaths.

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Good bet they're from the PRC. China has lost a lot of climbers.

Of course, they don't publicize those losses, and the list of *known* Chinese deaths is almost certainly incomplete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest#Fatalities

[Beringia]

23. Also it seems they would have sherpas who would know their general location

[cwydro]

19. No doubt they were reported, but there are bodies all over that mountain.

Most stay forever.

Disgusting that Nepal allows this on their “sacred” mountain.

[James48]

28. They make money from each one.

It’s their cash box- and the sherpas bowl of rice.

[Blue_true]

29. Why does Nepal allow it? $$$$.

It is a very poor country and the money come in handy. Plus the Serpas get work all summer long.

[Ace Rothstein]

26. Bringing a dead body down from that altitude is both difficult and dangerous.

Oxygen levels up there are something like 1/3 of what they are at sea level.

[Blue_true]

31. I would guess that Serpas did the cleanup and brought the bodies down.

The experienced ones are likely well conditioned to the altitude.