Now and again we all try to avoid things. The severity of the thing we're avoiding is always different, but most of the time it's a small thing, like remembering to change your email signature for work.
Ryan Sean Davy wasn't putting things off in work, or delaying a parking fine or whatever, but instead was hiding in a cave on Mount Everest so he didn't have to pay a £17,000 fine.
The 43-year-old would have had to have paid £8,500 to the Nepal government to climb Everest, though he somehow got away with not paying it. When climbing he set up his tent at base camp away from others to "avoid government officials", but when he was approached he ran away, seeking solace in a cave.
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"I saw him alone near base camp so I approached him and he ran away," Gyanendra Shresth, the government liason officer at base camp, told AFP. "I followed him with my friend and found him hiding in a cave nearby.
"He had set up camp in an isolated place to avoid government officials."
He was slapped with the huge fine, which is double the cost of what he was required to pay to climb, had his passport confiscated and was ordered off the mountain, according to Metro.
Davy could face being banned from Nepal for five years.
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Prior to his capture he documented his climbing on Facebook, saying: "When I heard that most of the expeditions on Everest had retreated to base camp because of incoming weather, I made my move."
He allegedly reached a height of 24,000ft in six hours.
In another Facebook post, after he'd been ordered off the mountain, he justified his actions: "This news is probably going to make a lot of people upset with me and I really hope you'll all forgive me. I'm willing to be as accountable as I know how but my Everest expedition has taken a very bad turn.
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"I am going to be honest in saying that when I arrived at Base Camp it became evident that I didn't have nearly enough money for a solo permit because of hidden costs and even if I did they would have declined it because I had no previous mountaineering experience on record.
"I was ashamed that I couldn't afford the permit after all the help, preparation and what everybody had done for me during my training, it would have been a total embarrassment to turn around and accept defeat because of a piece of paper.
"So I took a chance and spent the little money I had on more gear to climb and practice on the surrounding peaks for acclimatizing in preparing for a stealth entry onto Everest.
"Unfortunately the system caught up with me and I was eventually captured by the mountain Orks after two entries into the Ice Falls and managing an ascent of 24,000ft.
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"Expedition companies have no time for wannabe Everesters with no money so someone turned me in. I was harassed at basecamp to a point that I honestly thought I was going to get stoned to death right there. I'm not even exaggerating. I was treated like a murderer. A true testimony of how money has become more important than decency."
He makes a good point, and clearly acknowledges his wrong-doings.
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