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Published : 31 Mar 2014, 12:10 AM
Private TV channel Ekattor ran a report on Sunday, where Ibrahim’s teammate in the Langsisa journey, Shamsul Alam Babu, accused him of cheating to obtain the certificate that he had made it to the summit.
On Saturday, the TV channel aired a report based on ‘Nepal Parbat’, a publication brought out by the Himalayan country's tourism ministry and the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA), where it said that Ibrahim’s name was not on the list of people climbed Mt Everest.
Many in Bangladesh have already contested Ibrahim’s claim of being the first Bangladeshi to climb the world’s tallest peak.
According to Ekattor’s latest report, Ibrahim cheated over some other summits as well.
On Dec 1, 2008, a team of six including Ibrahim and Babu started their attempt to scale the 21,081 feet Mt Langsisa Ri in Nepal.
“After climbing 20,700 feet our guide Thame Bahadur Tamang told us that we could not go further. Asked why, he replied that we did not have the equipment needed to climb FURTHER,” Babu told bdnews24.com on Sunday.
He claimed that their journey had ended there as per their guide’s instruction.
“After the guide instructed us to return, Musa said that they would complete the summit at that height. When I protested, he said that we’d only take a picture,” said Babu.
The term summit is used for scaling the highest elevation point of a mountain.
Babu said: “We were being congratulated from Dhaka after climbing down, it was then I asked Musa about it. He told me that the media reported that we have completed the summit.
“The guide’s authentication is required for a certificate of summit. Musa had convinced the guide to do so and the three of us got it where it states that we climbed the entire 21,081 feet.”
He claimed to have not taken the certificate and said that he had written articles on different newspapers protesting against it.
“After failing to get the Nepal Mountaineering Association’s response despite several e-mails, I sent my complaint to them by courier. The association then had asked our guide Thame Bahadur Tamang and he admitted that he lied as Musa told him that he’ll not get paid unless he did so.”
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