Keeping To An Everest Theme,

here is an offer of some free money,

all you have to do is to climb Mount Everest and find it, of course it is not real money, the popular Q&A online platform AskFM recently launched its own cryptocurrency, ASKT, and decided to celebrate by hosting an original giveaway, so what better way to drum up new business and recognition than to give money away? so they buried a crypto-wallet with 500,000 tokens in it on Mount Everest and challenged anyone brave enough to go find it, I should say that it is the equivalent of £50,000, the Dublin-based start-up is similar to Quora or Yahoo Answers, and is currently the world’s largest questions and answers platform in the world, so it is a case of ‘finders, keepers’, 

but there are a couple of catches, well if it sounds to good to be true it most probably is, firstly the danger, what the company’s press release fails to mention is that during the decent, one of the two Sherpas accompanying the climbers was left behind, and never made it back down as reported in the Independant, the Sherpa, identified as Lam Babu, did not make it back to camp, secondly the currency, OK it is allegedly worth £50,000 and it may well go up, but here is the thing, to climb Mount Everest is not cheap, have a look at this website where I gleaned these details from,

Commercial operators charge a very wide variety of prices for climbing Mount Everest nowadays but generally speaking a guided trip with bottled oxygen on the south side will cost around $45,000.00 and on the north side will cost about $35,000.00. This is a broad average though. For the south side the price with a Western guiding company can be as much as $90,000 for a standard trip.

these figures assume there will 6 people in the group, and are per person, going it alone is not a wise move, and there is the first decision to be made north or south side? I have to say with the upfront costs of the climb and chances of finding the wallet, seem way to high and way to small, but there it is, money for free, or is it?

and just to tempt you here is the video, now if you have been there before, you might recognise where the helicopter landed, so at least that is a clue!