source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61828753
And what, like work? No thank you. I’ll just have five sherpas die so I can tell people I went to the highest mountain. :libertarian-approaching:
And there are a bunch of mountains even more difficult than Everest.
Like much more. Everest isn't technical at all, you just have to have to be a millionaire with decent cardio and a lucky weather window. Climbing Everest isn't cool is lame.
I've seen the photos of the lines of people "climbing" to the top. And they completely changed my opinion on it as adventurous.
I believe a Sherpa recently did all the peaks solo as a registered climber all in record time. So he is the registered number one guy for all the peaks. Where as before it was a bunch of rich people he was basically carrying up to the peak
Yeah it’s called 14 peaks, it’s really good. It’s on Netflix. Alpinism is super cool and a lot of people in the climbing community aren’t fans of the commercialization of Everest.
Research shows that the Khumbu glacier is rapidly thinning as a result of the changing climate. “We see increased rock falls and movement of melt-water on the surface of the glaciers that can be hazardous,” Scott Watson, a researcher at the University of Leeds who studies glaciers, told the BBC.
The current base camp location is becoming destabilized by the ice melt and is no longer safe. Climbers say cracks appear in the ground overnight, and guides say they expect more avalanches and ice falls at the current location going forward. The new base camp will be around 200 to 400 meters lower in altitude — and in a spot where there isn’t year-round ice.
Climate change isn’t the only contributing factor, though: the sheer number of people passing through the base camp adds to the destabilization. “For instance, we found that people urinate around 4,000 liters at the base camp every day,” Khimlal Gautam, a member of the committee that recommended the move, told the BBC. “And the massive amount of fuels like kerosene and gas we burn there for cooking and warming will definitely have impacts on the glacier’s ice.”
equivalent to over two thousand 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke
people urinate around 4,000 liters at the base camp every day
That means there's between 2000-3200 people at the base camp every single day.
What a sad picture. To think you could be in the middle of such natural beauty and still decide that leaving your trash behind is a good idea.
The dissolution of meaning in capitalist realism is also literally the dissolution of the ground we walk on. Even people as arrogant as medieval Christian crusaders would figure out God is angry at them or something.
