Indian climbers face action over fake photos of Mt. Everest ascent
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Kathmandu, Feb 1 (efe-epa).- A Nepalese government investigative committee on Monday recommended revoking Everest climbing certificates and imposing a 10-year ban on two Indian climbers for submitting false documents of their ascent.
According to the committee, Indian athletes Narender Singh Yadav and Seema Rani Goswami, who claimed having scaled the world’s highest mountain in 2016, had retouched photos depicting them standing at the summit of the 8,848.86-meter high mountain.
“A government investigation concluded on Monday that photographs purporting to show the climbers at the top of the world’s highest mountain were fake,” Nepal’s Tourism Ministry spokesperson Taranath Adhikari told EFE.