Europe's highest toilet has been built on the snow capped peak of France's Mont Blanc.

More than 30,000 visitors make their way to the peak each year and local mayor Jean-Marc Peillex said: "This move was much needed.

"Our beautiful mountain's white peak was full of yellow and brown spots in summer."

The two toilets were flown up Mont Blanc to a height of 4,260 metres.

A helicopter will also be used to empty the toilets on a daily basis at peak times for visitors.

I can here it now.  "Kids you'll have to wait till we get up the mountain."

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/09/12/the_raw_and_the_flushed?pg=full

""In a traditional German toilet," writes Zizek, "the hole into which disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected."

kinda makes ya think...