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    Laut Polizei wurden Bergsteiger des Mount Everest von Führern „vergiftet“, die im Rahmen eines 20-Millionen-Dollar-Versicherungsbetrugsprogramms zu Massenrettungen von Hubschraubern führten


    Laut Polizei wurden Bergsteiger des Mount Everest von Führern „vergiftet“, die im Rahmen eines 20-Millionen-Dollar-Versicherungsbetrugsprogramms zu Massenrettungen von Hubschraubern führten

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mount-everest-climbers-poisoned-guides-051218107.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC9PMGkNPoXaIBKPIeyIv7LyRHaCLHU_zvPdn7fYupCKmtJu5tQtpJfdu7tibvzE0ZHzHxRtKCRJpD4Cqs-Q6gBeyqOtF1R_FhctJc70phKP_JNER2UI_cvGRo-pNX_2S0zxZYv8zlStinAbscQ8qGeVYJJeFg7zpcWw-eRptFwR

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    2. Substantial_Milk8170 on

      Imagine paying $50k to climb a mountain just for your own guide to turn on friendly fire for the insurance payout. Bro really thought he found an IRL infinite money glitch. Actually diabolical work.

    3. WeakCartographer7826 on

      I’m not saying I think poisoning is a good thing, but I really don’t give a fuck about insurance companies

    4. Certain_Shake_5157 on

      Misleading title. The scam is carried out by the whole local tourism industry. The guides were paid to poison the climbers. The hospitals were faking emergency treatments. The helicopter companies were faking the rescue.

    5. landomakesatable on

      This scandal compared to the bullshit America is pulling off right now… Not even batting an eye.

    6. Particular_Newt6659 on

      Yeah when we were here there were a bunch of „rescues“ from base camp, where people basically walked up, couldn’t be assed walking back down so they have a medical „emergency“ and the chopper would fly up to take them back down. All billed to the insurance company.

    8. JoeRogansNipple on

      Did yahoo use AI to bring the wordcount up? half of the article doesnt make sense

    11. Kitchen-Zucchini2057 on

      Make them sick, trained staff scare them, pack multiple into one helicopter but bill as if they were all individual, change the paper trail to things more serious, hospital distributes cash to the companies that bring them trekkers.

    13. jphamlore on

      > Nepalese authorities found that the guides would purposefully put baking powder into climbers‘ food to mimic the common symptoms of altitude sickness, then feign the need for emergency services, the outlet reported, citing police.

      > Climbers were allegedly given diamox (Acetazolamide) tablets, which are used to treat and prevent altitude sickness, with „excessive“ amounts of water, per the outlet.

    15. felisnebulosa on

      I’m not surprised, they’ve been trying similar scams on tourists for ages now (though the poisoning is news to me).

      I hiked to Everest Base Camp in 2013 and on the third day my knee started complaining. I kept going but every morning my leg was quite stiff because it was swollen at the kneecap, though it didn’t hurt much. A guide suggested that I could say I was in too much pain to continue, call for an evacuation and get a „free“ helicopter sightseeing ride. He wasn’t even my guide, just a random one I was talking to.

      I didn’t learn about the whole scam later… That he, the hospital, and the helicopter pilot all take a cut of the insurance money. Or your money, if you’re unlucky.

    18. postfuture on

      We had professional Nepalese guides for a different mountain. After eating their awful cooking for five days (e.g. popcorn soup), my spouse and I switched to our emergency rations. Our health improved dramatically.

    19. APeacefulWarrior on

      Everything else aside, this sounds like a fantastic premise for a movie.

    20. Muraria on

      I remember when the same Sherpas were angry at Ueli Steck for not needing a guide.

    21. smallspeck on

      I imagine some folks who were evacuated are reading these articles and wondering if they were actually sick or if they got scammed.

    22. take-the-power_back on

      If an emergency is financially rewarded, a market for emergencies emerges.

    23. binghamptonboomboom on

      They probably poison the ones they know won’t make it.

      Kind of a win win tbh

    24. SurfTheUniverse99 on

      I trekked around the Everest and Annapurna region for a month in Nepal in 2019 and there were allegations of this happening. Some tea houses had advertisements for helicopter companies for rescue and the story was the guides were getting kick backs for calling certain companies. You wouldn’t have to fake anything. Almost everyone experiences some form of altitude sickness while trekking and you could simply encourage pushing forward when someone needed to stay another day or two before going up in elevation. Then when they are unwell, encourage them to call a helicopter.

    26. Technical_Ideal_5439 on

      Girl guides are everywhere, it was no doubt the cookie as a protest.

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