Flutterby™! : Nepal's fake rescue racket

This is fascinating: Kathmandu Post: Inside Nepal’s fake rescue racket

Investigations reveal a vast network of trekking firms, helicopter operators, hospitals and agents staging fake evacuations, fabricating medical records and inflating bills to siphon millions from global insurers.

The tourists may be in on it, told by their guides that they can avoid a 2 week hike back from Everest base camp by saying they were sick, or may be scared into it by guides inducing psychosomatic symptoms of altitude sickness, or may be given Diamox (Acetazolamide) tablets (for altitude sickness) with excessive water to induce symptoms of altitude.