Nepal: No Nudes Need Apply

Nepal is fed up with stupid mountain climber tricks and is clamping down on "disrespectful" nude stunts on Mount Everest.

"People taking their clothes off and so on — these kind of things we are trying to stop," said Ang Tsering Sherpa, the head of Nepal's official mountaineering body which issues climbing permits.

Last year a local climber sparked outrage after he claimed the world's highest display of nudity when he stripped and stood naked for several minutes on the 8,848-metre (29,198-foot) summit……

….."It's disrespectful — the mountains are sacred, they are part of our religion," the Nepal Mountaineering Association president told AFP.

Of course it's also bone stupid. They don't call it "the death zone" for nothing, after all. If someone wants to indulge their exhibitionist tendencies, there are more appropriate places. Go to the Antarctic, they could use a nice sculpture garden.