Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest

How is this better than heavy duty ziplocs?

Looks like he's really got his $hit together! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

BF <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Interesting that his last name is Sherpa. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

The way "last names" work in Nepal is that your particular ethnic/tribal designation (Sherpa, Lama, Tamung, Rai, etc.) is used as your last name. Sherpa is both a job title (someone who is responsible for getting trekkers/climbers where they are headed) and an ethnic group of people who originate from high in the Himalaya near Tibet, so that's a little confusing for us Westerners.

Presumably you can actually sit on it? which would be a huge advantage over squatting at that level of O2 deprivation.

I personally feel Everest should have a resort with shopping, dining, and miniature golf at Base Camp 1, and a heated tram to the 5 star restaurant at the summit. And night skiing. I guess the toilets are a start. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Don't forget the escalator. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

finallyME - Tibetans also get their first name from the day they were born. Like the guy mentioned in the article "Dawa Steven Sherpa"

Dawa = monday

Now there's something I didn't know! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Interesting.

See how much I learn by asking a simple question. Thanks for the answers. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You might as well - it's already a tourist circus. If people miss the "challenge" of their guided tourist climb they could always put a few animatronic half frozen corpses huddled next to the tramway route who could be ignored when the tram was on the way up, and you could stop and talk to on the way down.