According to a quote from the president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, uttered in 2015, an eye-watering “26,500 pounds of human excrement” is left behind on the mountain every season.
For many years now, environmentalists have expressed concerns about the amount of pollution left behind on Everest; specifically human waste. According to a quote from the president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, uttered in 2015, an eye-watering “26,500 pounds of human excrement” is left behind on the mountain every season. I think we can all agree that that’s an ungodly amount of turd.