• Snowclone
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    this is why you can no longer get a permit to climb unless you agree to bring down more wight than you go up with, there’s also clean up teams that go up every year and try and remove as much as they can, including the remains of people who have died on the mountain, although generally they move the bodies to a less or non visible space, because it’s very difficult to bring that much weight back down.

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      Remeber: whenever someone tells you to strive for success and live each day like it’s your last, every dead body on Everest was once a highly motivated person; so maybe just chill a bit.

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        Remeber:

        Remeber remeber the fifth of Noveber

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        Well, most of the bodies are there because they chilled a little too much.

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          Thanks to global warming they won’t be chilling for too long

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        sadly a lot of them are just very wealthy tourists and pay a lot of money to be babied up a very difficult mountain with a very small peak, and some just REFUSE to understand that “death zone” isn’t a tongue-in-cheek, cutesy kind of name, it lacks the oxygen you need to be alive. Still, someone’s bored generational wealth having kid is gonna walk up there without a tank and see what happens.

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        Decent T-shirt idea. Small pool of target customers though.

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      They should load the dead bodies up with garbage and slide them to the bottom.

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        they will straight up drop them into cracks in the ice. honestly, it’s more dignified than climbers using your earthly remains as a mile marker and nicknaming you something like “Black Finger’s McGee”

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      Imo they should just setup a giant slide to go down.

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        Just throw/roll the trash/bodies a little further down the mountain as you come across it. Eventually, it’ll make its way down.

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          Hey thanks, for a second I was wondering if I actually made a goofy reply to a serious comment

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        You’ve really split Lemmy in half, but you absolutely got a chuckle out of me.

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          Why dont they just use GTA physics and drive up the vertical cliff faces? GTA is based on real life isnt it?

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    Rich and ambitious people pollute everywhere they go.

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    What I wanna know is…

    Who weighed all that shit? 💩

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      probably an estimation based on the supplies itinerary & time spent climbing, up to a certain point before they told people to bring their poop back with them i think it’s safe to assume nobody did

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      You lnow how many people have climbed, you know the average weight of a human dookie, and you know how many times people ahit in average each day. You know that no one is bringing those dookies down, so you have a rough idea of how much shit is on the mountain.

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      Ooh when the ice melts, an 8 km high torrent of shit and disintegrating corpses will come down… hmmm.

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      For a while, yes. But the whole reason why there is so much shit up there is that the low temperature keeps it from getting processed by micro organisms, no? So once that really gets going we should see a wholly new ecosystem up there of plants, fungi, and animals that previously never inhabited the area.

      Note: this is my semi-educated take and I would love for an actual biologist to comment on how climate change will transform Everest.

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    If I ever meet someone who boasts about climbing Everest, I will be sure to ask them questions like “How many dead bodies and how much trash did you see?” and “Does it smell like doodoo the whole way up, or does it get cold enough that you can’t smell the piles upon piles of human shit?”

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    They’re mad about all of the human shit? What about all of the human bodies?