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#163 How Mount Everest Became A Huge (And Dangerous) Business

The Joe Pomp Show

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The Overcrowding of Mount Everest

The majority of people are climbing within a two-week span in May, Mount Everest. This makes the world's tallest mountain extremely overcrowded. The average person they estimate leaves about 18 pounds of trash behind. More than 100,000 pounds have been removed from the mountain over the last three years alone.

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