UnNews:Mount Everest now the world's second-tallest peak
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11 June 2019
KHUMBU ICEFALL, Nepal -- Mt. Everest is now officially the second-tallest terrestrial peak, having been beaten out for top spot by a mountain of rubbish left by successive waves of tourists. Many were lured to the area by the recent Uncyclopedia Press publication of Everest for Dummies and by Wikivoyage's Everest Base Camp Trek guide.
According to Papa Sherpa, the leader of a group of Nepal's famous Sherpa guides, rubbish has been piling up on Everest's slopes for years. The increasing commercialisation of the Everest trek is not only endangering lives, it's also burying the site under tons of garbage including cans, bottles, plastic and discarded climbing gear.
A team sent by the Nepalese government to clean up the mess and recover the bodies of deceased climbers has created a new mountain... of all the trash which they'd removed from Everest. That mountain is now 8,850 metres (29,035 ft) tall and growing, with no end in sight. Sherpa leaders only realised that this meant the 8848-metre Everest summit was now the world's second-tallest peak when they began to field calls from a band in Madison, Wisconsin asking for naming rights to the new mountain and the four camps leading to the summit.
The mountaineering camps on the newly-mapped Mountain of Garbage will be:
- Shirley Manson Base Camp
- Duke Erikson Camp II
- Steve Marker Camp III
- Butch Vig Camp IV
Tours and expeditions are already being booked for 2019 and 2020 on Wikivoyage.
Sources[edit]
- Schnappi "Mount Everest cleanup team picks up 3 tons of garbage". Deutsche Welle, May 2, 2019
- Ryan W. Miller "World's highest dump? Mount Everest is covered in tons of trash and dead bodies". USA Today, May 2, 2019