"After great expense and preparation, British climber Alan Hinkes attempted to scale the 26,000-foot-high Nanga Parbot mountain in Pakistan. He got about halfway up and was eating a Pakistani bread called chapati, which was topped with flour, when the wind blew the flour in his face, causing him to sneeze. It resulted in a pulled back muscle that made further climbing impossible."
[In February 2004, Trail, Britain's most popular hillwalking magazine, published an article explaining how walkers caught in foul weather and poor visibility could safely descend the north face of Ben Nevis (Britain's tallest and most deadly peak). Editor Guy Procter later apologised for an error which occurred "somewhere in the journey to press." "Trail omitted the first bearing of 231 degrees which leads you away from Gardyloo Gully," Scotland Mountaineering Council spokesman Roger Wild explained, "and only printed the second dogleg bearing that leads you off the summit. Anyone following that route in poor visibility and with snow cover could easily have walked straight off the edge (of a cliff)!"]
Sources
News of the Weird, Nov. 28, 1998; Trail, February 2004
