I'd bet a substantial amount that nobody is learning that Everest exists from this article.

I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.

Why should I care if there is a bunch of garbage and feces in a place that no one can even access without paying $70k? There's beaches where normal people actually go that are covered in trash and have raw sewage pumped into the nearby waters...surely that is a more important aspect of the environment to clean up or care about than a mountain in the middle of no where that only rich people visit.

It'll only get worse.

Management of Mt Everest falls under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation, and each Minister lasts barely a year because Nepali politics is extremely unstable because Ministries are given to critical MPs who can make or break a government.

Expect more permits to be issued and way less support and cleaning especially because Nepal has some systemic economic issues right now.

So, just as a fun exercise - what would it take to remove the top 250m from Mount Everest, making it only the second highest mountain?

So we should just ignore previous accomplishments I guess...

The amount of virtue signalling going on to turn this article into some kind of moral issue is just wild