KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese
mountaineering officials say they are investigating reports of a fight between
three foreign climbers and local Sherpa guides on Mount Everest.
Dipendra Poudel of the Mountaineering
Department said the three climbers — from Italy, Switzerland and Britain —
were involved in arguments with some Sherpa guides on Sunday.
Poudel says both sides accuse
each other of starting the fight, adding mountaineering officials based at the
Everest base camp were investigating the incident.
Sherpa guides hired by the
hundreds of Western climbers attempting to climb the world's highest mountain
are the first ones to fix the ropes on the routes so their clients can climb to
the peak.
The Sherpas are accusing the
foreign climbers of starting the fight.
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