Mount Everest Guide Sued for Fraud and Breach of Contract

By Jon Heshka, Associate Professor at Thompson Rivers University Mountains were formerly thought of as a refuge of scoundrels. From Warren Harding’s iconoclastic first ascent of The Nose on El Cap in Yosemite to Osama Bin Laden hiding in the mountains in eastern Afghanistan, its reputation as a place unsullied by the constraints of civilization and untouched by the law has been challenged by lawsuits last year involving a mountain guide, a millionaire client, and the world’s highest peak.