Sự thật ít biết về đỉnh Everest

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Every year, some 1,200 people make a mad dash for the summit of Mount Everest during the climbing season that begins in May - taking on the arduous (khó khăn, gian khổ; hết sức mình, gắng gỏi), often congested (đông nghịt, chật ních) route to the world's highest peak that most will not complete and some will not survive.

Working against them: temperatures far below zero, altitude sickness (chứng khó thở vì không khí loãng, chứng say núi) with effects that range from disorientation (mất phương hướng; đặt hướng sai (bàn thờ không quay về hướng đông...) to death, and the ever-present threat of frostbite (hoại tử vì bị tê cóng). More than 200 corpses of ill-fated climbers line the mountain's slopes, a constant reminder of those climbers' fatal (chết người, chí tử) missteps (lỗi sơ suất, bước lầm lạc; bước hụt, sẩy chân; hành động sai lầm, không chín chắn).

So it should probably come as no surprise if people traipsing up a mountain with its own death zone don't give too much thought to one particular question: What should we do with all this poop (phân)?

In the roughly two months that it takes to climb Mount Everest, the average alpinist will have produced nearly 60 pounds of excrement (phân). This season, porters (cửu vạn) who work on Mount Everest carried down 14 tons of human waste from base camp and other locations. It's dropped into earthen pits on Gorak Shep, a frozen lake bed near a village 17,000-feet above sea level...

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