New Everest Rule: You Can't Leave Your Poop Here
Scaling the world's highest summit is an amazing feat that entails plenty of logistics—and now, what climbers do with their poop will be one of them. A new rule requiring...
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Scaling the world's highest summit is an amazing feat that entails plenty of logistics—and now, what climbers do with their poop will be one of them. A new rule requiring...
Rubbish remains a huge issue on Everest and other mountains in the region, although there has been an increasing number of clean-up campaigns.
As complaints of human waste pile up, new rules require climbers to properly dispose of their stools.
Climbers will need to purchase "poop bags" at the base camp. These bags will be "checked upon their return".
It has been reported that there are around three tonnes of human excrement between camp one at the bottom of Everest and camp four, towards the summit.