Posted on 04/02/2026 5:42:58 PM PDT by Libloather
Hima-liars.
Mount Everest guides have allegedly been secretly lacing tourists’ food to trigger costly helicopter rescues as part of a $20 million insurance scam, according to a new investigation.
Police in Nepal have charged 32 individuals with organized crime and fraud charges related to the plot, which involves trekking company owners, helicopter operators, and hospital executives, the Kathmandu Post reported.
Guides with the trekking agencies allegedly poisoned tourists by putting baking soda in their food to trigger severe gastrointestinal distress that mimicked altitude sickness or food poisoning, investigators said.
Once ill, the visitors were allegedly pressured into agreeing to costly emergency helicopter evacuations, with operators using forged medical and flight documents to bill international travel insurers for the cost, according to authorities in the Himalayan country.
Those ill-gotten gains were then allegedly split among the guides, helicopter companies, trekking agencies, and the hospitals where the tourists were taken for fake treatments.
The investigation began in January when six executives from three prominent mountain rescue firms were arrested.
The groups allegedly fraudulently obtained at least $19.69 million in insurance payouts, according to police.
One company is accused of faking 171 of its 1,248 claimed rescues, leading to more than $10 million in illegitimate payouts.
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That's why I'm goin' to Kathmandu.
Baking Soda...
20 million bucks worth.
ISWYDT.
> That’s why I’m goin’ to Kathmandu <
Not me. I’m off to Bimbombey instead.
Hills, but no dangerous mountains there.
https://youtu.be/OobF3mViwdg?si=AuhtqCj3gqC9BAkV
Several years ago,, My son went on a trek up Everest. He and his friends were caught in a blizzard that lasted several days, luckily at base camp where they stayed at a little inn.
“What did you do there for a week?”
“We told yak jokes.” All of these genius electronic guys really enjoyed it. They worked for Bechtel in Saudi, setting up computer centers.
NO ONE is going to trust the current choice of Sherpas!
It sherpas to be extra vigilant these days.
First World Problems. lol
The remaining guides will have to open hospice/learing centers to make some real money.
Several days of those? Wow. Of course, the air is thin, so, if one gets told twice, no one remembers.
Is everybody in the world on the take?
If Bimbombey doesn’t work out, there’s a tiny house by a tiny stream with a lovely lass and her lovely dream in Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea, but watch out, there are Four Lads who seem to be her very protective brothers.
Didn’t Jimmy also go to Tucumcari? He sure got around!
Do they have cousins in Somalia, by any chance?
Yes
I like your platform principles on your about page.
You need to run for president.
It’s one thing to rob people of money, but stealing what is probably their one chance to live their dream?
Scum.
You know what’s good for that? Some bicarb of soda.
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