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Wash kit, wipes, toilet paper and rubbish bags on Vinson

Also called: Hand sanitiser, wet wipes, toilet paper, Heavy-duty garbage bags, Personal washing kit + towel, Toilet paper, Wet wipes / waterless soap

What it is for

Wet wipes, hand sanitiser, toilet paper and bags to carry out waste. Staying clean keeps you healthy on a long trip, and on many mountains all waste must be carried out.

What Vinson asks for

Standard
Wet wipes, hand sanitiser, toilet paper, a small towel, moisturiser; garbage bags, and human-waste (WAG) bags, which ALE hands out: everything comes off the mountain
⚖All feces and all garbage are carried back to base camp and flown out of Antarctica. Above base camp you defecate into a WAG bag (ALE gives you three per person) or a group toilet bag, never onto the snow; you bring the garbage bags and group toilet bags. Carry a WAG bag and your pee bottle on summit day.
Source

Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Annex III (Waste Disposal and Waste Management), Art. 2(1), 2(2) and 4(3) — https://documents.ats.aq/recatt/Att010_e.pdf; ALE, Vinson Waste Guidelines — https://antarctic-logistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Vinson_Waste_Guidelines.pdf ("All climbers are required to follow our Vinson Waste Guidelines", https://antarctic-logistics.com/about-ale/environmental-ethic/)

The full Vinson gear list

Kinds

  • Wash Kit
  • Wipes
  • Toilet Kit
  • Waste Systems

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