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jimlup

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8. Actually it is harder than it sounds

Reply to Scootaloo (Reply #7)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 06:24 PM

Mar 2014

Many clients don't carry anything but their own personal stuff up. The sherpas do all the real work for many of the teams. My guess is that with some of the teams a sherpa will be hired to go up to camp 1 and bring down N times 8kg+1 and then will pass the trash off to his N clients right after they finishing descending most of the ice fall.

But still it is a step in the right direction.

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Nepal to force Everest climbers to collect rubbish [View all] The Straight Story Mar 2014 OP

Good dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #1

They should. nt RiffRandell Mar 2014 #2

There a couple hundred bodies up there in addition Jenoch Mar 2014 #3

good oldtime dfl_er Mar 2014 #4

The point is just to get it done and change the climbing culture, not punish people... Hekate Mar 2014 #23

This is wonderful. This shouldn't be a dumping ground WhiteTara Mar 2014 #5

As a climber I applaud this move jimlup Mar 2014 #6

If they can carry the junk up the mountain, they can carry it back down Scootaloo Mar 2014 #7

Actually it is harder than it sounds jimlup Mar 2014 #8

Sounds like a win-win situation. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #13

my family has climbers,no mountains but cliffs and rocks questionseverything Mar 2014 #11

About damn time theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #9

It seems to me that this requirement might endanger climbers for obvious reasons... busterbrown Mar 2014 #10

So climbers would be endangered but the locals wouldn't. Skidmore Mar 2014 #12

Descending Everest is actually a pretty precarious situation... jimlup Mar 2014 #17

I still fail to see why it Skidmore Mar 2014 #25

On Everest most climbers follow a climber code which basically is that everyone is equal... jimlup Mar 2014 #27

Omicron sucks jimlup Dec 2021 #28

They used to run a expedition each year just designed to pick up the trash. FSogol Mar 2014 #14

I do the beach, not the mountains obxhead Mar 2014 #15

They should just build a hotel at the bottom and a funicular to the top. hunter Mar 2014 #16

Hillary said something like that just before he passed away Recursion Mar 2014 #22

It's still an accomplishment for some... jberryhill Mar 2014 #26

Maybe they should collect the bodies that have been phil89 Mar 2014 #18

Very strange indeed. PowerToThePeople Mar 2014 #20

Good. It's long overdue. jsr Mar 2014 #19

They try this every few years Recursion Mar 2014 #21

Yeah, I would have hoped they would have collected it without Cha Mar 2014 #24