{"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:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67709","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod; phony mountain climbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=67712\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67712\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2-500x313.jpg?resize=500%2C313\" alt=\"Dinesh Rathod2\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2.jpg?resize=500%2C313&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 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=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=67710\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67710\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-with-his-wife-Tarakeshwari-401x333.jpg?resize=401%2C333\" alt=\"Dinesh Rathod with his wife Tarakeshwari\" width=\"401\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-with-his-wife-Tarakeshwari.jpg?resize=401%2C333&amp;ssl=1 401w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-with-his-wife-Tarakeshwari.jpg?resize=300%2C249&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-with-his-wife-Tarakeshwari.jpg?w=670&amp;ssl=1 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=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=67711\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67711\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod-500x313.jpg?resize=500%2C313\" alt=\"Dinesh Rathod\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod.jpg?resize=500%2C313&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 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=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=67719\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67719\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seavy_Everest2-500x313.jpg?resize=500%2C313\" alt=\"Seavy_Everest[2]\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seavy_Everest2.jpg?resize=500%2C313&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seavy_Everest2.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Seavy_Everest2.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 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 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. Well, it turns out that they stole photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dinesh-Rathod2.jpg?fit=720%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hC5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}