KATHMANDU, NEPAL — Mount Everest has turned into a massive open toilet littered with garbage after a record number of rich douchey climbers visited the world's highest mountain this season. <br />According to the Associated Press, at the top of the world, one can find depleted oxygen cylinders, food wrappers, rope and other junk scattered all over. <br />A Nepalese government cleanup crew is now tasked with clearing everything from abandoned tents to a literal boatload of butt loads from an estimated 700 climbers, guides and porters. <br />The AP reports that exhausted climbers struggling with the altitude and battling nausea often leave the heavy tents behind rather than carry them down.<br /><br />An estimated 30 tents have been left Everest's highest campsite—Camp 4—and as much as 11,000 pounds of trash. <br />But apparently the biggest threat to Everest now is the nearly 17,000 pounds of Number Twos dropped this season at Camp 2, which is two levels higher than Base Camp. <br />And because some climbers don't use makeshift toilets, and instead just dig a hole in the snow, as temperatures rise, that waste gets then washed down to Base Camp where people use melted snow for drinking water—Ewww. <br />Mountaineering groups have been pushing the Nepalese government to come up with regulations on how to properly dispose of human waste. <br />Some climbers use biodegradable bags that have enzymes that break down the doo doo, but those are expensive and have to be imported from the States. <br />In the meantime? Maybe just make all those rich climbers carry their own crap—all of it.
