They are in a mountain of trouble.
According to a report on Thursday, two mountaineers with scandal were banned from mountaineering in Nepal after an investigation found that they were falsifying the summit of Everest.
Tourism officials banned Narender Singh Yadav and Seema Rani Goswami of India from practicing alpine sports in the country for six years after taking the fraud to new heights in 2016, the Indian newspaper reported. Express.
To prove that they had reached the highest peak in the world, the couple allegedly doctored photographs of themselves at the summit and presented them to tourism officials as evidence, according to the medium. Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism then certified that they had completed the grueling feat.
But when Yadav competed for India’s prestigious Tenzing Norgay adventure award last year, mountain teammates pointed to evidence showing that images of his 29,032-foot climb were likely altered.
A Nepal tourism ministry then launched an investigation, which concluded that the climbers had lied and in fact “had never reached the summit,” an agency official said.
“In our investigation, we found that they had submitted false documents [including photographs]. Based on documents and conversation with interested officials, including Sherpas [expert Nepalese mountaineers], we have reached this conclusion, “a tourism ministry official told the newspaper.
Climbers ’certificates were revoked and their main guide, Naba Phukon, was also banned from mountaineering in the country for six years, according to the newspaper.
After the outbreak of the scandal, Phukon said the duo had turned around before reaching the top due to problems with oxygen tanks and freezing.
“His oxygen cylinders didn’t work and his sherpa, Dawa Sherpa, wasn’t there either. Seeing their condition, I told them both to come back [to base camp]. Later, I met Rani at Lhotse Face and suffered from frostbite. I called the Sherpas at base camp and they started a rescue for her. Yadav had already left for base camp, “Phukon said, according to the newspaper.