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China closes Mount Everest Tibet route to tourists over trash pileup
2019-02-18
[UPI] China has closed the Tibetan entrance to Mount Everest indefinitely because of mounting garbage that's been left on the world's tallest mountain.

Chinese officials said although the entrance is closed, tourists can still visit the Rongpo monastery area at 16,400 feet above sea level. Only those with climber permits, however, will be allowed to go to the base camp about 600 feet higher, and beyond.

"The key area [of the reserve] will be closed for tourism for an indefinite period, mainly for ecological conservation," tourism official Tang Wu said Wednesday.

News of the decision, which officials reached last month, did not get much attention until this week.
Everest now being "conquered" by nuevo-explorers - not that I would survive it, mind you. What approaches commonplace astounds me.

Maybe AOS & Company could market Garbage Offsets?
Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#10  ^ Pshaw. Been there many times and cherish fond memories of the cozy little cantina where I once met a funny native fellow with a grotesque red nose who provided me with invaluable information regarding a beaten-down mining stock... oh... did you say Rombok? Never mind.
Posted by: Bigfoot Jones2567   2019-02-18 22:48  

#9  none of you have ever been there! :)


hard sayin not knowin aint it
Posted by: 746   2019-02-18 22:26  

#8  Rombok has been pretty grubby and littered for years
Posted by: 746   2019-02-18 22:24  

#7  Actually the trail all the way to top trashed. Pretty disgusting.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-02-18 20:29  

#6  I read something over ten years ago that, back then, trash and sewage were becoming a real problem.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-02-18 14:40  

#5  a good percentage of tourist hikers leave an incredible amount of trash wherever they go. We see loose trash right next to bear-proof bins, almost as if the lids were too heavy or something (or they couldn't figure out the latching system).

Can't imagine what the 'entitled' folks, used to having their moms or nannies pick up after them, would leave.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-02-18 13:27  

#4  Chinese probably wouldn't like homeless encampments either.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-02-18 12:11  

#3  It's a slippery slope.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-18 07:18  

#2  It has become a high rise sewer, courtesy of Outdoor Magazine types...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-18 07:17  

#1  you can always go to the East Face of Mt Everest ( Kangshung)through Karta
Posted by: 746   2019-02-18 01:06  

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