The Third Significant News From the Highest Peak on Earth, Mount Everest, Comes Out, But This Time It Is Not a Death, So What is it About? Dig in to Find More about it

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: Chirlot Sharma | In Career , Lifestyle

More news is coming from Mount Everest this season already. It all started with news of the death of two famous mountaineers, Ueli Steck and Min Bahadur Sherchan. But this time it is not about death, but about creating the law.

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The Incident

A South African man, Ryan Sean Davy, came under arrest in Nepal while allegedly attempting to scale Mount Everest without a permit. He climbed more than 20,000 feet before authorities came to know about it.

Gyanendra Shrestha, a government liaison officer at Everest’s Base Camp, said,

“I saw him alone near base camp so I approached him and he ran away. So, I followed him with my friend and found him hiding in a cave nearby. He had set up camp in an isolated place to avoid government officials.”

While it is not clear how high Davy managed to reach Everest‚ he went on to claim in his Facebook post that he reached a height of 24‚000 feet.

Camp 2 is at a height of 21‚000 feet with the summit being a further 8‚030 feet up.

The Say From Davy

A Facebook post-Davy said,

“This news is probably going to make a lot of people upset with me and I really hope you’ll all forgive me. When I arrived at Base Camp it became evident that I didn’t have nearly enough money for a solo permit because of hidden costs and even if I did they would have declined it because I had no previous mountaineering experience on record.
Source: THT (Davy near Everest Base Camp)
I was ashamed that I couldn’t afford the permit after all the help, preparation and what everybody had done for me during my training, it would have been a total embarrassment to turn around and accept defeat because of a piece of paper.
So I took a chance and spent the little money I had on more gear to climb and practice on the surrounding peaks for acclimatizing in preparing for a stealth entry onto Everest.”

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Consequences of his illegal act

Nepal’s Department of Tourism charges foreign travelers £8,500 for a permit to climb Everest. It is fine for the evasion of this payment. Now, Davy faces a fine of around £17,000 for trying to avoid the payment.

Davy’s passport is with the authorities and he is currently en route on his return journey to Kathmandu. He can face up to 5 years ban from Nepal or even a 10-year ban on climbing in the Himalayan nation without the proper procedure.

Reaction

The comments on his post were in the form of a flood of support‚ with some suggesting raising some funds for the seemingly stranded Davy. His Timeline was full of posts of the peaks surrounding Everest with some showing Davy on the Everest climb itself.

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Short Bio of Ryan Sean Davy

Though much is not known about Ryan Sean Davy, he comes from a wildlife background filming. He has also been employed as a key DP to pull together stories to the likes of ‘The Kings Pride‘, ‘Tender Killers‘ and ‘Blood Ties‘.

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