Extreme Exhibitionism

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – The head of the
Nepal Mountaineering Association urged the government Saturday to take
action against a sherpa who reportedly stripped on top of Mount Everest.

The Himalayan Times had reported Friday that the Nepali climbing guide,
whose name it gave as Lakpa Tharke, stood naked for three minutes in freezing
conditions on the 29,035-foot summit of the world’s highest peak.

If confirmed, he would be the first person known to have stripped atop
Everest, considered by Nepali Buddhists as a god.

Ang Tshering Sherpa, head of Nepal’s top mountaineering body, said he could
not confirm that the incident had happened."But if he did it, it is
very shocking because Sagarmatha is the goddess mother," he said,
using the mountain’s Nepali name.

"The government must enforce strict ethics for climbing." Authorities
have yet to comment.

But the climb’s organizers seemed happy enough with Lakpa Thaeke’s strip.

"We are planning to file his extraordinary feat for the Guinness Book
of World Records," the paper quoted an official of the hiking group
that employs Tharke as saying.

from
Reuters

As far as we know, the Guinness people don’t  have
a separate chapter for greatest naked accomplishments. Gosh, you would
need highest naked pole vault, most naked people in a phone booth, most
naked piano player on stage at one time…..Maybe the folks at Hustler would be interested.