It takes two months to cover the 20km journey from the base camp to Mount Everest. But as amateur mountaineer Nahida Manzoor discovered, the fall from grace takes no time at all. Perhaps, due to the lure of rewards, accolades or even the promise of a government job, which are increasingly forcing amateur mountaineers to lie or use unethical methods to prove their summit of Everest, Manzoor, 23, a resident of Zewan, Srinagar, used morphed photos to prove her claim. Despite having actually climbed the tallest mountain in the world, she allegedly did this because she could not take pictures of her own at the summit and nor was her sherpa with her at the time. This act has led to questions being raised on her claim of being the youngest girl from Kashmir to be on top of the world.

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