Everest Week: 6000 people have summited Mt Everest

Everest Week: 6000 people have summited Mt Everest

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the Day, day day day day do do
do do do do do do do do.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do do do do do doo. Today's are fact of
the days about how many it's MOUNTI verus week.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Loving it loving? Do we all know?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Because Anthony regular Fact of the Day contributor messaged and saying,
you've are you going to cover the story about the
people who climb out Everest in their pooh?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Do you remember the reading about that they had to
take their poo off?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Oh? Yeah, obviously you don't want to leave turns up up.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
They were pacing bags and then just leaving them there. Oh,
for God's sake, And they were like someone else will
get that as it wasn't the why because I was
just like, it's gross and it's plastic, right, it's pollution. Yeah,
And they were the bags were getting just deteriorated by
the conditions that open and then the poos would mountain
and was getting into a drinking water that was the
main reason. It flows down into like villageous drinking water

(01:01):
and stuff. And they were testing and they had like
really higher cola levels.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
If we're pooping the bags right on the side of
a mountain, are we pooping onto the ground and then
picking it up with a.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Bag like a dog. No, poops right into the bed,
into the bag.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
How do you know how big it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
What I would hold hold the bag tois like it
was a blue into the mouth.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, because you and like you could be in like
gusty conditions. It could be around the minus twenty. You're saying,
put the bag inside the pants. Never drop the pants, pop.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Into the No, no, no, no, You've got to poop
onto the ground and then you've got to pick it.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Up like a dog. If you poop me onto the ground,
you've already got your pants down. You might as well
just do it into the bad It was just easy.
It was running for you might have a funny tummy.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Okay, here we go, here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I've googled.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
This is from the b business. The fact, by the way,
this isn't the okay. Most climbers and support stuff tend
to dig a hole. But the higher you go at
the mountain, some locations have left less snow.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, of course, so you have.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
To go to the toilet in the open. Very few
people bring the excrement back and buy degradable bags when
climbing Everest, which came.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Such as the stuff of just all these plastic bags
up there. People here, we must leave our poop.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Also the mountain. We've got the sidebars we are taking here,
but the mountain is so busy, you see it now
there's cue, So you're just seeing people taking a.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Dump on the side.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yeah, lock myself up with those. You know when you
go to Bali, you have those anti diarrhea PILs.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, but then you're carrying that all up the medium
no oh yeah inside.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, imagine trying when you haven't passed and then yeah,
you get just get down to the base. A solid
dog roll born.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
It would be a big luncheon chobe.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
It would be plastic wrapped as well, and you'd just
be screaming.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh, you would be Yeah, you'd have to surgically remove
it anyway, and you'd have to give it a name.
You would you'd have to birth and name it, and
get a berth to everything. Gosh, get a little christening gown. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Find a godparent.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, guys, you guys have been my dear friends for years,
and I have an important question to ask you.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Maybe the god parents to my to my back. I've
got to find a good school to get it enrolled.
We're gonna have to move to get zone.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
We've got to do it basically from bird to get
into grand Zione.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh well, I want to be double zoned little Embrest baby.
You know, oh name of George, after George Everest himself,
who gave his name famously to the mountain. Even though
we've been saying that wrong the whole time, It's not Everest,
it's ever Rest, ever Rest. Did you know that? That's
another fact that's not even today's many?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Right?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
What is today's fact. Today's fact of the day is
how many people, by last count have summit at Everest. Okay,
weirdly we haven't had numbers from the last two seasons. Okay,
there have been eleven, three hundred and forty six summits
of every wrist by six thousand different people. Now you're
doing the maths on that. A couple of shep is
doing some doubles there.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
One Sherpa Nepalese schirper, who currently holds the record for
the most times Everest has been climbed, belongs to Cami
Rita Sherpa who has climbed Everest thirty times. Thirty times they.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Must be they must have a Guinness record or something.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yes, and also I believe holds the record for the
fastest ascension. Oh yeah, of Everest.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
They him him. He must have a set of bloody
calf muscles on him. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Quads records, yea quads, but not a lot, not a lot, sinewy,
nothing extra on the board. Yeah right, getting up that
mountain net quick but all of the Kenton Cool is
the only non Nepalese person in the top ten. So yeah,
as a British climber, and it's climbed it eighteen times.

(04:58):
Good stuff. Yeah, numbers have they said? Do you know
how many New Zealanders have climbed it? That would be
a good fact for another day. Roberts and Dean Staples
have both done it. Roberts, Mike, he is incredible.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, he's in great shame.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
He's in great shame. We've got quite a few New
Zealanders on this list of people that have claimed it
more than once. So the whole list is anyone that's
said it more than once? Oh yeah, well our guy
did it first. I mean that's it's our best claim.
Marty Schmid's done it twice. Good old Mart's Gary Ball
he passed away on the mountain, didn't it, because that
was what the TV movie was about. Yeah, that's an

(05:36):
intense watch. Gary, he did it twice. I'm just going
to scoot right up to the top here to our
new Zealander is up the type. Yeah, Dean and Mike
did it nine times each. Look at me talking like that.
My best mates Jamie McGinnis has done it six times.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Jimmy boy.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
So yeah, really, most people are double dipping on the Everest.
So that's why there's the cues at the top because
four times. I've actually don the mount only once in
my life. But really it was tough. Yeah, command it's great. Yeah,
it's a great summit up there. So today's back to
the day is As of twenty twenty two, eleven thousand
summits of Everest have been accomplished by six thousand different

(06:15):
people in one dom.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Roll back to the day, day day day Dayah.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Do do do do do do do do do do
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Speaker 3 (06:26):
Do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do doo doo.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Someone did say we forgot to throw a gender reveal
party for our