470,000 Watch Hillary’s Funeral!

Architect of World’s Highest Garbage Dump Bites the Dust!

[Submitted by a guest writer.]

About 414,000 people (ten percent of New Zealand’s 2-legged population) watched four hours of live coverage of Edmund Hillary’s state (!) funeral on a NZ TV channel, while another 55,500 watched a two-and-a-half hour long coverage on another channel, according to a report. [Edmund Hillary was one of the first people to glorify the littering of Mount Everest, the first steps in destroying one of Earth's remotest ecosystem, and be praised for it.]

Image and Source: Everest from Kala Patthar in Nepal

The procession also included two precious possessions, carried upon cushions by slow-stepping soldiers; a carved wooden walking stick and an ice-axe to sum up the adventurous spirit of Sir Ed, who died on January 11 of a heart attack, aged 88.

NOT a single viewer has yet volunteered to clean up the estimated 1,200 tons of garbage or remove the 150 or so dead bodies (at least 41 bodies lay on the north side of Everest alone!) that Hillary and his fellow conquistadors have since left behind.

About 921,780 liters of raw sewage were discharged into glaciers on Everest between 1921 and 1999, according to Junko Tabei, a female climber who reached the summit in 1975. Tabei conducted research on garbage left on the mountain for her master’s course thesis at Kyushu University in 1999.