Did this Indian couple alter photos to show them on top of Mount Everest?

Nepal’s mountaineering authorities are investigating a climbing claim by an Indian couple who are accused of altering photographs of themselves on the summit of Mount Everest, an official said on Monday.

Department of Tourism chief Sudarshan Dhakal said that authorities are reviewing the Everest climb made by the couple in May.

They were issued climber’s certificates from the Nepal government after they presented a photograph of themselves on the 8,850-metre summit.

The couple, who are both police officers from Pune in Indian state of Maharashtra, had also claimed they were the first Indian couple to scale Everest.

Fellow climbers, however, say the couple never reached the summit and used someone else’s photographs to earn their climbing certificates.