- Stricter restrictions on climbing, and what one can bring to the campsites, can help reduce waste.
- Decreasing the number of people who can visit each year can aid in the mountains health.
- Enlisting clean-up crews on the mountain can help reduce the trash produced by climbers.
- Creating periods of time where nobody can visit can allow us to take better care of it.
How can we negate the impact and deaths?
An estimated 12,000 lbs. of human waste and trash is left on the mountain annually, ranging from abandoned gear, food product trash, feces and the various bodies of climbers who died on the way.
Climbing is also extremely harmful to the mountain and the surrounding environment.
While only around 7 to 10 people die every year trying to summit, hundreds are pulled away injured and unconscious due to extreme conditions and the lack of oxygen atop the mountains highest points.
But not only is this harmful to the mountain itself, it's also incredibly deadly.
And how can we blame them; who doesn't want to be able to flaunt that they toppled the king of all climbing, the infamous and mystical Everest
itself? Mt. Everest has been a high traffic climbing area for years.
Every year, around 800 to 850 people attempt to
summit Mt. Everest.
The trip of a lifetime...
MIGHT BE YOUR LAST.
