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印度夫妻警察被开除，因为谎称他们登上珠峰
送交者: 两极的世界
The Rathod couple on Everest
Image captionThe company that assisted the couple had initially insisted
that the pair's Everest conquest claims were true
Two police officers have been sacked after an inquiry found their claim to
be the first Indian couple to climb Everest was fake.
Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod said last year that they had successfully
reached the 8,850m (29,035ft) summit.
But police in Maharashtra state on Monday confirmed the couple had "morphed
photographs" to show a successful ascent on 23 May.
The inquiry was launched after the pair's claims were queried by climbers.
Additional Commissioner Sahebrao Patil told the PTI news agency that the
couple "shared misleading information" and "brought disrepute to the
Maharashtra Police department".
It's not clear if the couple will also face charges.
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Nepalese authorities also imposed a 10-year mountaineering ban last year on
the couple after concluding that their claim was fake.
The country's tourism department had initially certified their ascent but
rescinded that decision after conducting an investigation.
Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod on the Everest climbImage copyrightMAKALU
ADVENTUREImage captionIt is alleged that these photos which purportedly show
Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod also did not belong to them
Mr and Mrs Rathod initially told reporters that their pictures were real.
But a climber based in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, Satyarup
Sidhantha, later told the media that the photographs presented by the
Rathods as "proof" of their climb actually belonged to him.
Suspicions were further aroused because of the time lag between the day the
Rathods claimed to have reached the summit and their news conference
announcing their achievement.
It was alleged that the couple could not possibly have reached the summit so
soon after they were seen to have arrived at the base camp, and that the
photos appeared to show them in two different sets of clothes and boots
while on the climb.
Many of those who have succeeded in scaling the 8,848m (29,029ft) mountain
have subsequently gone on to have lucrative careers as motivational speakers
and authors.
Mountaineering is a major source of income for impoverished Nepal.
More than 450 people, including more than 250 foreigners, climbed Everest
during the spring season last year. It followed two consecutive years of
poor weather - made worse by the Nepal earthquake of 2015 - which resulted
in almost all Everest attempts being abandoned. |
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