Xu Zhen, a visual artist from Shanghai, has just finished a new art exhibit centred around what the
exhibit website claims is "the top 1.86 metres of Mt. Everest". Apparently, he climbed the mountain with
mountan sawing equipment, sawed off the top of the world's tallest peak, then descended with it and placed it in a special refrigerated case to keep it frozen.
I'm leaning towards "hoax" on this one, but if not, it does raise an interesting question... what are the legal implications of stealing a mountain? If this guy gets away with it, it could lead to a whole rash of uncontrollable mountain thefts. I, for one, have always thought the tip of the Matterhorn would make a sweet ottoman.
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