Human Waste in the Wild
In the country’s remotest, rockiest reaches it can be tough to find a place to go to the bathroom. That’s why in some places, park rangers require you pack it out. Jason Albert reports on some successes and failures, and how rangers try to bring climbers around by talking face to face.
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