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Neighbouring country Nepal has banned two Indian climbers and their team leader as faked their 2016 climb up Mount Everest.
The three have been banned for six years from mountaineering in the country after an investigation found they had faked the climb. The action against them came when they failed to produce any evidence after one of them was nominated for an award.
Climbers Narender Singh Yadav and Seema Rani Goswami and their team leader Naba Kumar Phukon banned from climbing Nepal’s mountains for six years. The three are yet to react.
Reaching the top of the 8,848.86m (29,032 ft) mountain is considered to be a shining feat for mountaineers around the globe and several have done it.
When Yadav was listed for the prestigious Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award last year, the claims were queried by few climbers. A Nepal tourism ministry official told that during their investigations with other climbers, they found that the two never reached the summit and had failed to produce any reliable pictures of the summit and any other evidence.
“In our investigation, we found that they had submitted fake documents/photographs. Based on the documents and the conversation with the officials concerned, including sherpas the expert Nepalese mountaineers, we reached this conclusion,” an official from Nepal’s tourism and culture ministry shared their investigation.
Their Everest summit certification has also been revoked. The tourism ministry has also fined the company that organised the climb and the sherpas that supported them.
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Indians first summited Everest in the 1960s and in 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb the mountain. Indians have also set records for “the first twins”, “the first female amputee”, “the youngest girl ever” and “the oldest woman ever” to ascend the peak.
Many of those who have succeeded in scaling the mountain have subsequently gone on to have lucrative careers. Several became motivational speakers and many wrote books.
