India, Feb. 9 -- Mount Everest climbers will have to pick up their own poop and bring it back to the base camp. Why? As per the Chairman of the local Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, the excrement left behind by the climbers is making the mountains stink.

"We are getting complaints that human stools are visible on rocks and some climbers are falling sick. This is not acceptable and erodes our image," the chairman, Mingma Sherpa, told the BBC. Hence, the climbers will be ordered to buy poo bags before embarking on their journey to climb the world's highest peak.

When mountaineers are at the base camp, they have access to separate toilet tents, reports the BBC. However, during climbing, they tend to dig holes in the snow to poop. Once the...