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Portable loo for mountaineers

Updated on 19 November 2008

Source PA News

A Nepalese entrepreneur is marketing a portable toilet, fashioned from a plastic bucket and lid, for his adventurers who want to conquer Everest.

About 3,000 people have scaled the world's highest peak since 1953, and many have left a mess on their way up.

"I want to promote anything that manages human waste on the mountain," said Dawa Steven Sherpa.

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