A party of climbers who thought they were climbing Mount Everest turned out to be summiting nearby K2 as their guide had planned their route using Google Maps, which somehow directed them up the wrong mountain.

One of the climbing party told FNN:

It did seem like a very long hike to the top as it took us some months from our basecamp on Everest to reach the summit of what turned out to be K2. We did pass numerous bodies on the way who were frozen in the snow still holding up their mobile phones with the incorrect route map displaying.

Other members of the party claimed that when they reached the summit their satellite phones were pinged with solicitations from Amazon, recommending they purchase a national flag to plant on the summit that would be delivered by drone from Katmandu, and from Virgin Galactic offering cut-price flights into space given they were already part of the way there.

Bill "Battler" Heslop, a former member of Sir Edmund Hillary's team that made the first official ascent of Everest in 1953, commented:

Look mate. It's an easy mistake to make. I mean all these mountains look the same after you've had a few bevvies and a singsong sitting out a snowstorm in basecamp. Luckily we had Sherpa Tensing with us - a teetotaller - so he made sure we went up the right mountain and carried all the beer. What a trooper!

Hey Muriel. Fetch me a tinny. I'm parched!