• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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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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        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.

      • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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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.