Indian Couple's 'Fake' Everest Photos Investigated.
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Image 3 and 4 are allegedly altered versions of 1 and 2. [/I]
Reminds me of that North Korea missile shop
[quote=sky news]An Indian couple are under investigation by Nepalese authorities amid allegations they doctored photographs of themselves to support false claims they reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod, who are both police constables in the Indian state of Maharashtra, are accused of using another mountaineer's photographs in order to gain official climber certificates.
[B]One man has submitted what he claims are the unaltered photos from the top of the summit, which show the same people in the background but no sign of Mr and Mrs Rathod.
Although the alleged fraud does not amount to a criminal offence, the Nepalese government could decide to revoke their certificates and ban them from mountaineering in the country for at least 10 years.[/B]
Nepal's tourism chief, Sudarshan Prasad Dhakal, said his department had spoken to the expedition's organisers and officials stationed at Everest base camp before validating the couple's certificates.
[B]He added: "In order to provide a certificate to the climber, we rely on their photograph on top of Mount Everest … If someone fakes their photos, it's hard to determine that they are not original."[/B][/quote]
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Nice photoshop
also how is that a meme title, the source literally has that as a title and I've seen this on the BBC under something similar
I'm confused with that ban.
This ban confuses me, the source has the same title...?
Bradyns likely fixed the title after banning
I edited the title, please mention it no further.
Ban them from mountaineering in the country?
What does it matter? It's shitty to fake summitting everest but does the Nepalese government have nothing better to do?
I don't see why this is such a huge deal.
[editline]5th July 2016[/editline]
Ah, it's not a criminal thing. Oh well then.
[QUOTE=Kylel999;50651670]Ban them from mountaineering in the country?
What does it matter? It's shitty to fake summitting everest but does the Nepalese government have nothing better to do?[/QUOTE]
Thats the thing, maybe they dont!
Climbing mountains is serious business, especially with Mount Everest. People have lost libs and other things and even died from it. The fact that these two faked it is really disrespectful. While jail time is not necessary, the ban is reasonable.
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