There’s several things about this story -
He’s been there 30 times and has nothing but some photos to show for it? Hundreds and prehaps thousands have been up there over the last 2 thousand years and have brought back nothing.
It has been proven time and time again that there was a huge flood so that isn’t a fairy tale.
$60k shouldn’t be that much for these guys. One would think that they would have had things ready to go at a moment’s notice for years already. There’s the weather excuse, the mean ol’ government excuse, then they have the military causing land slides excuse and now they need some funding to start to get things together excuse. Enough already! It’s been exposed to the weather enough over the centuries and crushed with lands slides so rounding up a few dozen villagers to just haul the thing down this summer isn’t going to hurt it much more.
During the cold war, Russia was very concerned about people being on those mountains because they (Russia) had a major military site located on the other side.
There was pressure from Russia on Turkey to keep people off the mountain.
In Fact, during an overflight by U.S. intelligence, photos were taken of something large near the top of the mountain.
There is another site on ‘the mountains of Ararat’ being endorsed by Anchorstone.org as being the site of the Arks landing. That site is accompanied by large ‘Drogue’ or anchor stones with some of the stones being marked with crosses.
There is a history in the second area of that being known as the location where Noah and his family settled after the Ark landed.