More than 310 people have died climbing Everest since exploration first started in the early 1900s. It's dangerous to retrieve the bodies, so many litter the mountain to this day. Many have blamed ...

"Make them clean it up." Video of 'disgusting' tourist behavior on Mount Everest sparks outrage: 'I hope we can come together to change our ways' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Katie McCay on her way the basecamp of Mount Everest in March 2024. She says she heard of a group offering tours of the mountain to plus-size and slower groups.

A Sherpa bags up litter on Mount Everest at 8,000 meters. (Image credit: Namgyal Sherpa/AFP/Getty) Mount Everest has a mountain of a problem: human waste.

-Tons of trash – oxygen canisters, cans, plastic, ropes, tent parts and pieces, and human waste – litter the slopes of Mount Everest, including in areas near the 29,000-foot summit.

Last week, a man named Mingma Tenzi Sherpa scaled Mount Everest for the ninth time — but instead of being met with a beautiful view, he was met with absolute disgust for what he saw around him.

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Mount Everest’s overcrowded South Col route is where it belongs: on AllTrails. It is “generally considered a very challenging route.” ...

Passage: In memoriam 01:14. Kathmandu - On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their ...