Mount Everest: Climbers will need to bring poo back to base camp

This is a common practice in other high altitude, high traffic mountains, such as Aconcagua. Rangers actually watch you deposit your excrement bag and fine you if you do not do so or they catch you leaving your waste on the mountain. I'm frankly surprised its just now becoming a policy on Everest.

It sounds gross, but in practice it is not as bad as it seems. For anyone interested in the details, it is stored in multiple bags (one bag per movement, then multiple larger outer bags) and freezes pretty quickly, so there isn't really any smell.

I've been packing out my poo for decades. Sure, I started when camping in the snow, but when I learned how bad human crap is in the back country I decided to do it in the summer too (you already have to pack out the rest of your trash, including used TP).

Learning that people don't do this on a place like Everest says more about the human trash who climb it than it does about anything else.

Recent photos of the ascent look like the lines at Disney theme parks. One can only imagine how much waste that many people can generate. This seems an overdue requirement.

When there is a literal line of narcissists and bucket-listers up the side of the mountain...at some point they need to dig a vertical tunnel, and install a pressurized glass elevator system. That'd let everyone (with money) check their boxes, without making a huge, ugly mess of a beautiful bit of remote wilderness.

the need for basic hygiene has been in play for a while.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-c... [2020]

i hope bourgeois don't leave this task for Sherpas...