The effect of climate change: the feces of the highest mountain in North America will melt

This is the the highest mountain in North America and his prospects are not encouraging as far as climate change. The Stool accumulated for decades at Mount Denali will melt.

According to the data of USA Today, we expect that they will soon begin to melt more than 66 tons of faeces left by mountaineers at the top of the mountain.

Although the merger is expected to begin in the coming decades, it seems that global warming will speed up the process.

Among the chaos that this panorama could have, there is good news: This year, for the first time, companies that offer guides to climb the mountain will take care of the excrement.

Every year Some 1,200 people venture on Mount Denali, which rises to 6,190 meters. On a clear day you can see the city of Anchorage.

The problem of feces is a reality in the mountains because in this place they are generated nearby two metric tons of human waste in one year.

At first, it was believed that the waste would be "crushed" by the ice over timebut Park Service glacier expert Michael Loso explained that this was not the case.

Loso has been studying the problem of mountain droppings for almost ten years. His experiences showed that the buried faeces finally reappear on the surface of the glacier, where they begin to melt.

The problem is that the bacteria and microbes present in the faeces survive after being buried in the ice, this could mean a health problem once the snow is melted and the stool exposed.

And while this is happening on all glaciers, the process was rather slow, but climate change has accelerated it.

In the past 50 years, the ice in Alaska's parks has decreased by 8%.

"We lost more glacier cover in Alaska's national parks than the entire state of Rhode Island. One of the consequences of hot weather is that the surface of the glacier melts more quickly, "said Loso.

The alert is even greater because we think that even during the next climbing season, which is about to begin, Feces deposited in the lower camps may resurface.

For the moment, park staff do not make special trips to look for a stool.

Unlike what is happening in Denali, on Mount Everest, it's not just the faeces to be treated. The melting ice has brought to light the bodies of buried climbers.