Commercialization of Mount Everest does not only show disrespect toward the goddess by victimizing her as a money maker machine, but also for turning her awe-inspiring nature into a garbage dump. As Krakauer reaches the Everest Base Camp in the novel, he states on the view of the mountain that, “Everest had been turned into a garbage dump by the ever-increasing hordes, and commercial expeditions”(77). He describes the scenery of how “huge stinking piles of human feces lay everywhere; [...] [turning] the purists sniffed Everest, [into] debased and profaned”(66). His statement toward the mountain proves that Mount Everest is not the clean and prestigious attractive rock that are shown in the advertisement and posters anymore. Using the word
