:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 5.29.2003 ::
:: The $hit on Everest ::
From Yahoo! News:
Everest Summitters Discuss Human Waste
KATMANDU, Nepal - Men and women who have scaled Earth's loftiest height were considering the mundane matter of human waste Thursday at an environment symposium during celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Mount Everest (news - web sites) conquest.
Junko Tabei of Japan, the first woman to reach the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit, told fellow mountaineers she had calculated that over the past 50 years 1 million liters of human urine had permeated into the Lhotse Icefall, the first phase of the Everest climb.
Although the Nepal government fines each Everest climber $4,000 if they do not bring back down their trash and there are regulations about using portable toilets and containers, Tabei, 64, said she feared that "all human waste is left on the mountain."
During the years before regulations, she said, human excrement collected at the edges of the base camp. At higher elevations, it would freeze rather than deteriorate, and there is no soil in which to bury it.
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