A closer look
Mount Everest is literally covered in hundreds of tons of human feces and frozen corpses that serve as highly morbid trail markers for aspiring mountaineers. Because the extreme altitude and freezing temperatures prevent organic matter from decomposing naturally, the highest peak on Earth has steadily transformed into an incredibly expensive, highly exclusive open-air landfill. Wealthy tourists enthusiastically pay upwards of fifty thousand dollars to risk their lives, trudge past the frozen remains of past explorers, and leave their own neon-colored oxygen tanks and human waste on the pristine slopes, entirely ruining the majestic aesthetic of nature just to secure a bragging right that nobody at their corporate law firm actually cares about
