Thread: I'm dying to climb Mt Everest

Loads of brilliant videos of Everest on this channel..
David Snow - YouTube

If you want adventure fook Mt Everest. Join TD! Look how many posters on the first page are no longer with us. Hick. DrB0b Tuskagee ben Baitong boy. The list of carnage goes on.

Reports of a major outbreak of Coruna in basecamp.



Austrian expedition has aborted climbing

They say, that atleast 100 persons in basecamp has the virus

Sour show

Originally Posted by hick

“There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act—a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

“The plain truth is that I knew better but went to Everest anyway. And in doing so I was a party to the death of good people, which is something that is apt to remain on my conscience for a very long time.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

They did it for some meaning in their lives.

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

Look how many posters on the first page are no longer with us. Tuskagee ben

I miss Tuskagee Ben ... he was a hoot.

Used to send me PM's ranting all over the place.

I still have one unopened which I'm saving for that special moment when I want a blast from the past

This is one amazing video. It’s on X but imbedded in this article.

Video of Mount Everest's 360-degree view stuns netizens, goes viral

Watch: Video of Mount Everest'''s 360-degree view stuns netizens, goes viral - Trending News

Cool find MK!


Top of the world literally.

The video beneath it is even cooler!

There are heaps of great vids on that channel. The one on the 1991 Olympic made me laugh out loud.

Originally Posted by bsnub

The video beneath it is even cooler!

plane crash in Afghanistan? Perhaps the videos offered are determined by an algorithm?

The Nepali Army Is Removing Trash and Bodies From Mount Everest

Every spring, hundreds of mountaineers from around the world travel to the Himalayas in hopes of summiting Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain. As they make the slow, arduous and sometimes fatal journey to the summit, they leave behind garbage, gear and human waste.


Authorities have recently implemented new rules to help curb Everest’s trash problem. But in the meantime, the 29,032-foot-tall peak remains littered with debris.

This week, Nepali troops are launching their annual cleanup on the mountain. On Sunday, 12 members of the Nepali military were slated to arrive at Everest Base Camp for this year’s Mountain Cleanup Campaign, an initiative launched in partnership with Unilever in 2019, reports CNN’s Lilit Marcus.


They’ll be supported by 18 sherpas as they remove an estimated ten metric tons of garbage and debris from Mount Everest, as well as nearby peaks Mount Lhotse and Mount Nuptse, according to the Himalayan Times’ Rastriya Samachar Samiti.


They will also attempt to bring down the bodies of five climbers who died while ascending or descending Everest. Last year was one of the deadliest seasons on record: Twelve mountaineers died, while another five who went missing are presumed dead.


More than 300 climbers have died attempting to summit Everest since exploration began there in the early 20th century. Some get caught in avalanches or fall into crevasses, while others suffer from fatal medical conditions like frostbite or high-altitude cerebral edema, a condition that causes brain swelling.

Experts say human-caused climate change was at least partially responsible for last year’s high death toll.


“The main cause is the changing in the weather,” said Yuba Raj Khatiwada, director of Nepal’s tourism department, to the Guardian’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen in May 2023. “This season the weather conditions were not favorable; it was very variable. Climate change is having a big impact in the mountains.”


Last year, Nepal’s government issued over 450 permits to mountaineers who wanted to summit Everest. Each permit costs thousands of dollars—on top of the large sums mountaineers often pay to guide companies.


Some critics have argued that the government is issuing too many permits. They’ve also called out low-cost guiding companies for taking on inexperienced clients and focusing too little on climber safety.


“People with little or no experience who book under-resourced expeditions are exposing themselves to huge risks,” Caroline Pemberton, co-owner of Climbing the Seven Summits, told Outside magazine’s Alan Arnette last year.

This year’s Everest season will begin soon. For a brief period in the spring, the fierce winds that blow at the top of the mountain sometimes die down enough to allow climbers to reach the summit safely.


“Mount Everest protrudes into the stratosphere, and most of the year the summit is buffeted by winds of over 100 miles per hour that will kill a climber in minutes or even hurtle them into the void,” John All, a geographer at Western Kentucky University who summited Everest in 2010, told Popular Mechanics’ Rob Goodier in 2012. “It is only during the onset or [cessation] of the Asian Monsoon that these winds die down and allow climbers short seven- to ten-day windows to climb the mountain.”


In recent years, authorities have announced new regulations intended to improve safety and reduce trash on Everest. All mountaineers are required to rent and wear an electronic tracking device, collect and carry their own waste back to base camp and pay an expensive trash deposit. They only get the deposit back if they return with at least 8 kilograms (around 18 pounds) of garbage.

The Nepali Army Is Removing Trash and Bodies From Mount Everest | Smart News|
Smithsonian Magazine

There must be a mountain of empty oxygen tanks on the mountain alongside the yellow brick road of poo and pee to the summit
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^ no.

Mount Everest climbers must now buy poop bags and bring their waste down: ‘our mountains have begun to stink’

Climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, will be ordered to buy poop bags and bring their waste back down with them for proper disposal, according to a new regulation.


Mingma Sherpa, the chairman of Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, which covers most of the Everest region, told BBC News that the new rule was introduced in response to unpleasant smells and unseemly sights in the area.


The extreme cold of Everest prevents faeces from fully degrading.

Climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, will be ordered to buy poop bags and bring their waste back down with them for proper disposal, according to a new regulation.


Mingma Sherpa, the chairman of Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, which covers most of the Everest region, told BBC News that the new rule was introduced in response to unpleasant smells and unseemly sights in the area.


The extreme cold of Everest prevents faeces from fully degrading.




“Our mountains have begun to stink,” Sherpa told BBC News.


He added that it had also led to complaints that “human stools are visible on rocks and some climbers are falling sick,” which he said was damaging the municipality’s image.


At lower altitudes, climbers typically dig holes in the snow to dispose of waste. But at higher elevations, with limited snow cover, climbers are often forced to relieve themselves in the open, BBC News reported.


“Waste remains a major issue, especially in higher-up camps where you can’t reach,” Chhiring Sherpa, CEO of the non-government organisation Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), told the news outlet.

He said his organisation estimates that there is around three tons of excrement between Camp One, at the bottom of Everest, and Camp Four, near the summit, per BBC News.

Half of that waste, he said, is at Camp Four, also known as South Col, which is at an altitude of around 26,000 feet.


The solution, authorised by the municipality, will see the SPCC procure about 8,000 poop bags from the US for the coming climbing season, which starts in March, BBC News reported.


The news outlet said that the bags contain chemicals and powders to solidify human waste and minimise the odour.


They will be available to purchase at base camp and will be checked upon their return, per BBC News.


According to National Geographic, trash has long been a significant problem on Mount Everest, with discarded oxygen canisters, tents, food containers, and faeces littering the slopes.


This not only harms the natural environment but also poses health risks to those living nearby, it said.

Mount Everest climbers must now buy poop bags and bring their waste down: ‘our mountains have begun to stink’ | South China Morning Post

Originally Posted by misskit

Mingma Sherpa, the chairman of Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, which covers most of the Everest region, told BBC News that the new rule was introduced in response to unpleasant smells and unseemly sights in the area.

he should pop into Kathmanpoo sometime

Reckon he’s picking up the dookie too or just the recycling?

^I wonder what the humans in the 22nd or 23rd century will think when they see the plastic waste and e-waste that we've accumulated...

But yes, it's horrible how we as humans pollute our envt. I've watched some vids of the Camino de Santiago. The areas near San Sebastian (the end of the trail) - it's filled with rubbish like food packaging, water bottles or soda cans, etc. To think that it's supposed to be a pilgrimage or a spiritual walk. Sigh... (There was 1 vlogger who makes it a point to gather some rubbish along the way.)

Originally Posted by misskit

Reckon he’s picking up the dookie too or just the recycling?

Not much recycling happening on the mountain, that's all pure waste.

Originally Posted by david44

Santiago de Compostella , the fields under the satrs legend was St James washed up near Finisterra, noiw larely regarded as apocrophyl myth/fake saints eh, but wealtthy eve today pay others to make merit for VIP seat in queue for pearly gates, so there, pm coming

Yeah, my mistake, sorry. I was thinking of Santiago de Compostela. In the last 100 km of the trail (esp the French & Portuguese routes), there's a lot of trash littering the streets.

Even in a mountain near my home, there's rubbish. The last time I hiked it, we were given a short briefing by the persons in charge. No smoking along the trail or at the summit, no littering, bring your trash down with you, etc. At one point (maybe 3/4 up the mountain), there were loads of water bottles & plastic packaging. Our group gathered some of the rubbish on our way down but it was just too much trash for a small group. We also didn't bring large garbage bags.

Originally Posted by katie23

Our group gathered some of the rubbish on our way down but it was just too much trash for a small group.

Good for you, locals think I am crazy

Only person in the village who recycles batteries, it's part indolence, poor education and that poor karmic aspect of Buddhisms enless another chance mentality IMHO.

It can change Ireland started compulsary charge for plastic bags reduced use by 80%, in many places 'bag for life, usually hessian' is common.



I do the same around here, as well as beer bottles that can start fires, break there are enless plastic bags that can choke mammals, the ocean withe micro plastics is another huge area.

Originally Posted by david44

Only person in the village who recycles batteries,

On batteries a deposit system would be in order.

But the industry might find it inconvenient and they do after all own the politicians and take the decisions