Garbage on Everest

In 1953 sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest. No one had ever reached the top of this 29,000-foot mountain. When they reached the top they were on the top of the world at a very oxygen deprived lonely place. Since 1953 more than 4000 climbers had tried to follow in there footsteps.

In following in their footsteps these climbers created a mess in what was once a quite clean mountain to sewage filled space. The author from the article writes, “The two standard routes, the northeast ridge and the southeast ridge, are not only dangerously crowded but also disgustingly polluted, with garbage leaking out of the glaciers and pyramids of human excrement befouling the high camps” (paragraph 3). Over the last 62 years climbers have left waste, trash and other things on the mountain .The author from the article also writes, “Climbers usually dig holes in the snow for their toilet use and leave the human waste there”(paragraph 5). Climbers use nature as their bathroom when climbing.

The garbage pileup on Everest is also very dangerous on Everest. The author from the article writes, “Everest even has a sewage problem. When base camp’s outhouse barrels are filled, porters haul them to open pits near Gorak Shep. Meanwhile, above base camp, most climbers straddle small crevasses to relieve themselves. The result: The peak has become a fecal time bomb, and the mess is gradually sliding back toward base camp. In 2012, Swiss climber Ueli Steck told me that he won’t even boil snow for water at Everest’s Camp II, because he thinks the lower boiling temperature at that altitude won’t kill germs”(paragraph 6). Mount Everest has become a fecal time bomb and it also has a sewage problem. Also the author from the article writes, “26,5000 pounds of human excrement each season, most of it bagged and carried by native Sherpas to