A team of nine Greek climbers who had traveled to Kathmandu in order to reach the top of Mount Everest will forever thank their sherpa guide for robbing them.
Their devastation when the guide -whom according to reports, they had each paid 11,500 euros- didn’t show up at the meeting point turned to relief when they realised they had escaped the deadliest disaster in Mount Everest’s history.
“We arrived in Kathmandu last week and there we discovered that our sherpa had disappeared with the money we had given him,” Sophoclis Paitis, one of the climbers told Nerit, the Greek public television network.
“We reported the incident to the Nepali authorities and then decided to return to Greece on the eve of the earthquake. In the end we were lucky, but we have friends at the (Everest) camps who are living through very difficult moments,” he added.
The entire group comprised of nine Greeks and nine Indians, all of whom got out safely, while eighteen of the climbers on the site were killed after the avalanche swallowed the Everest base camp, leaving another 60 injured.