Otter@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoClimbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reachtheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down12
arrow-up189arrow-down1external-linkClimbers have turned Mount Everest into a high-altitude garbage dump, but sustainable solutions are within reachtheconversation.comOtter@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·7 months agoSome of the trash and human shit, maybe, but I think they’re never going to get the dead bodies down. Even the article suggests that probably won’t happen.
minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·7 months agoSome of them are used as landmarks, so they’d have to haul up new signage if they did manage to bring all the corpses down.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·7 months agoI wouldn’t say “let’s replace this dead body landmark with a sign” is the worst thing to do in general, but maybe on Everest…
Some of the trash and human shit, maybe, but I think they’re never going to get the dead bodies down. Even the article suggests that probably won’t happen.
Some of them are used as landmarks, so they’d have to haul up new signage if they did manage to bring all the corpses down.
I wouldn’t say “let’s replace this dead body landmark with a sign” is the worst thing to do in general, but maybe on Everest…