{"id":67709,"date":"2016-08-31T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67709"},"modified":"2016-08-31T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T14:01:29","slug":"dinesh-and-tarakeshwari-rathod-phony-mountain-climbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67709","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod; phony mountain climbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67712\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2-500x313.jpg\" alt=\"Dinesh Rathod2\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sean sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/08\/30\/couple-accused-of-faking-mount-everest-climb-with-phony-photos\/\">New York Post<\/a> which tells the story of Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod &#8211; they claimed to be the first Indians to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The couple are police officers in their country, so who would doubt them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67710\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-with-his-wife-Tarakeshwari-401x333.jpg\" alt=\"Dinesh Rathod with his wife Tarakeshwari\" width=\"401\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-with-his-wife-Tarakeshwari-401x333.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-with-his-wife-Tarakeshwari-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-with-his-wife-Tarakeshwari.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that they stole photos from another climber, Satyarup Sidhanta, and photoshopped themselves over his images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67711\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-500x313.jpg\" alt=\"Dinesh Rathod\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the couple has been banned from climbing any mountains in Nepal for ten years &#8211; the Nepalese government had awarded them a certificate based on the photos.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur investigation shows that the couple faked their summit. We have imposed a 10-year ban against them from climbing any mountain in Nepal,\u201d Sudarshan Prasad Dhakal, the tourism department chief, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The couple disappeared after the investigation was launched and are still missing, the Indian Express reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems that you can&#8217;t trust anyone anymore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> TSO claims that they stole his photo, too;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67719\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seavy_Everest2-500x313.jpg\" alt=\"Seavy_Everest[2]\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seavy_Everest2-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seavy_Everest2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seavy_Everest2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean sends us a link to the New York Post which tells the story of Dinesh &hellip; <a title=\"Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod; phony mountain climbers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67709\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod; phony mountain climbers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}