INDIA –  Police in India are investigating claims by two climbers who say they are the country’s first couple to scale the world’s highest peak Mount Everest.

Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod told reporters this month that they reached the 8,850m (29,035ft) summit on 23 May. But some mountaineers alleged the couple, who are both police officers, faked their achievement by circulating digitally altered photos of the climb. Mr and Mrs Rathod deny the claims, as do the guides who climbed with them. Contacted by the BBC, Tarakeshwari Rathod insisted that she and her husband had “climbed Everest”. The pair work as constables in the western Indian city of Pune, where police are now carrying out an inquiry..(BBC.COM/photo: bbc.com)…[+]