One could assume it is a basic understanding to take your literal shit back home…
Normal rock climbers do, or organise someone below to collect poop bags below on big wall.
A lot of hikers don’t, though. Neither their poop nor their rubbish.
Source: Rock climber that frequents clean up trail days so our favourite locations don’t get shut down. “Leave it better than you found it.” is a common saying in the community whenever going outdoors.
Rubbish, I understand. But wouldn’t human feces decompose really quickly in most except for the coldest environments?
You generally use wet wipes if not TP. People either leave it or try bury it, animals get to it, and there’s dug up shit covered wipes everywhere not showing any signs of decomposing.
Also high traffic areas, it builds up. Turds take a while to decompose on the surface or buried shallow—they harden up as the moisture leaves. Sounds gross but if you gotta, dig in soil (not sand or silt), and break up your shit with a stick. Never near water, and preferably in a bed of bush that’ll suck it up fast over the weeks.
But ideally, poop bags :) Do the deed, pick it up like we do our pet dogs’, put in the wipes, knot/seal the bag and either leave it for pickup on the way out, or put it in your bigger trash bag/compartment.
I’m actually designing a crag backpack with a reserved waste area. A part on the bottom that seals off smell and liquid and tough inside for when you pick up broken glass and hose out that section.
I’m no hippie, it just pisses me off that much outdoors.
Sherpa rates just 10x’d
I was just thinking this. We all know it will fall on the Sherpas to carry people’s poop back down.
Just tell everyone to poop at the summit. It’ll make the mountain taller and bring in more people.
They should just install a cable lift by now
Can we just, stop? Stop the bullshit - stop trekking dumb people up mountains, stop cruising boatloads of assholes around the antarctic so they can ‘see nature’ while their cruise ships burn bunker oil and shit effluence into the oceans? there are dozens of examples of pointless consumption that sicken me. there’s more corpsesickles on everest that will remain until the last glaciers melt, can we just stop hatefucking the planet?
edit: downvoter - what’s your argument? what am I missing?
Apparently, sh.itjust.dont.work (on everist)
They could build a train track, or zip line, up and down the mountain. A zip line would make waste disposal easier :)
What would be the terminal velocity of the poop sliding down a zip line? I can just imagine it hitting a wall at the end and exploding 😅
Roughly the airspeed of an unladen swallow.
A European or African swallow?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Those hoping to climb Everest this year will have to make some slight adjustments to their packing list, as new rules now mandate that climbers bring their excrement down with them from the world’s highest peak, in a bid to tackle pollution.
With gear, food, supplemental oxygen, Sherpa guides and more, it costs upward of $35,000 to take on the mountain.
But the world’s highest peak has a poop problem, driven by the number of visitors, and the harsh conditions on the mountain, which interfere with the degradation process.
Jinesh Sindurakar of the Nepal Mountaineering Association told CNN that an estimated 1,200 people will be on Everest this season.
“Each person produces 250 grams (8.8 ounces) of excrement a day and they will spend 2 weeks on the higher camps for the summit push,” Sindurakar explained, adding that each climber will be given two poop bags, which can each be used six times.
Efforts to reduce the impact of tourism on the Himalayas have stepped up, with 35,708 kilograms of waste and plastics removed from peaks including Everest, Lhotse, Annapurna and Baruntse through an initiative led by the Nepali Army, according to the Himalayan Times.
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They could always put in an outhouse, but it would be pretty cold to use. Eight Crazy Nights
