Another Reason Not To Climb Everest

That's it! Thanks to a pointer from Kyla, I'm just not going to be climbing Everest until they get the crime problem under control.

Q: You say you were surprised by the level of crime?

A: Yes. There was a number of things that shocked me, but particularly the level of crime. We had $10,000 of equipment vanish. We had 10 bottles of oxygen vanish, our ropes ended up back in a climbing business in the United States, almost all of our tents went missing. We had quite a problem with theft."

That's not to mention the mysterious vanishing of climbers... into thin air, one might even say.