A new drone service is delivering supplies such as ladders and oxygen cylinders on Mount Everest, making it safer for Sherpas and cutting the time it takes to get supplies up the mountain – as well as bringing trash down.

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  • riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    Rich people hobby now getting easier. Guess what they’ll do with all the drones that crash there

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      Leave them like the bodies. Unless they can be strong enough to take supplies up and bodies down.

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    Would be nice to get all the trash off everest. Maybe make ones that can carry heavier loads to bring down bodies. There are like 200 left up there, I think?