{"id":87271,"date":"2026-04-02T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87271"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:17:35","slug":"mount-everest-climbers-poisoned-by-guides-prompting-mass-helicopter-rescues-in-20-million-insurance-fraud-scheme-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/mount-everest-climbers-poisoned-by-guides-prompting-mass-helicopter-rescues-in-20-million-insurance-fraud-scheme-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest climbers &#8216;poisoned&#8217; by guides prompting mass helicopter rescues in $20 million insurance fraud scheme, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZZ8HE.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Stock photo of trekkers walking back to Namche Bazaar from Everest Base Camp trekking in Nepal. Credit: Getty\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nepal Police\u2019s Central Investigation Bureau reportedly found the years-long scam generated thousands of dollars for the alleged scammers involved.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/mount-everest-climbers-poisoned-by-guides-prompting-mass-helicopter-rescues-in-20-million-insurance-fraud-scheme-police-say\/ar-AA1ZYQxf?ocid=BingNewsVerp\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nepal Police\u2019s Central Investigation Bureau reportedly found the years-long scam generated thousands of dollars for the alleged scammers involved. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/everest.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87272,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87271\/revisions\/87272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}