Money alone won’t get you up there. No matter how many Sherpa’s you hire, it’s brutal. People spends weeks and weeks at the various base camps just to acclimate, and that does nothing to add to their strength.
And yes they leave literal shit and O2 bottles. Carrying a few extra pounds on the way down could kill you. You have to give it nearly all you got to summit, then the descent is even more dangerous.
We could argue shutting down the mountain, but I’ve never heard of a solution to remove the trash. You have to carry it up, you can’t carry it down.
Read Into Thin Air if you want to know more. I won’t read it again, too brutal.
Money alone won’t get you up there. No matter how many Sherpa’s you hire, it’s brutal. People spends weeks and weeks at the various base camps just to acclimate, and that does nothing to add to their strength.
And yes they leave literal shit and O2 bottles. Carrying a few extra pounds on the way down could kill you. You have to give it nearly all you got to summit, then the descent is even more dangerous.
We could argue shutting down the mountain, but I’ve never heard of a solution to remove the trash. You have to carry it up, you can’t carry it down.
Read Into Thin Air if you want to know more. I won’t read it again, too brutal.