Mount Everest CHEATS won’t get away with faking ascent thanks to new GPS technology

Nepal will provide GPS tracking devices to catch out climbing cheats who say they've reached the peak of Mount Everest

Officials in Nepal said the technology would tackle false summit claims and track climbers in distress.

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Nepal will hand out GPS tracking devices to those climbing to the peak of Mount Everest

Climbers who reach the 8,850 metre Everest summit have typically had to show photos of them at the top as proof – as well as a report from an official who stays at base camp.

A couple was banned from mountaineering in Nepal for ten years after they faked a photo of their ascent .

Technology is proving to be useful is catching out sports cheats.

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Indian couple Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod were accused of faking photos showing them at the summit of Mount Everest

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The climber also claims that the couple used another picture of him on the summit, where oxygen masks block the mountaineer’s faces

One woman was revealed as a fraud after her tracker revealed she had cut out a large section of a half marathon.

Pictures taken after the race revealed that her smartwatch had clocked up a far shorted distance than the course.

The devices would also help locate climbers who are in trouble on the mountain so rescuers can be sent.

The 2017 spring climbing season is expected to be busy on Everest.

Hundreds of climbers were able to scale the peak last year following two years of disasters on the mountain.

(The Sun, UK)