Not that getting into a bloody, nose-smashing, fist-flying brawl is anything we’d ever encourage here at Yahoo! Canada, but if you are going to beat the crap out of someone, certain places make better impromptu battlefields than others.

For instance the top of Mount Everest: Not a good place. For so very many reasons. Not the least of which is the possibility of rolling off the world’s highest mountain while entangled in an angry bear hug. And then there’s the whole oxygen thing. And the possibility of getting seriously injured many, many miles away from a hospital.

But in the remote likelihood that you do find yourself rolling up your sleeves and yelling, “How do you like me now?” whilst scaling the upper reaches of Everest, whatever you do, make sure you’re not threatening the person responsible for safely guiding you down the mountain.

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Because according to AFP, police are currently investigating an alleged fight between two well-known European climbers and their Nepali guides.

"We were told our clients and the guides fought on their way to camp three. We don't have all the details yet, but our clients have come down off the peak," Anish Gupta of Cho-Oyu Trekking, the Kathmandu-based company that organized the expedition, told the news agency.

"There are communication issues high on the mountain, but we have received the reports of a fight and deployed our team to investigate the incident," added Sitaram Karki, the local chief district officer.

BBC notes that the men, Swiss national Ueli Steck and Italy-based Simone Moro had been on an Everest climbing expedition with British photographer Jonathan Griffith and their hired Sherpas.

The group reportedly reached 25,000 feet before they were believed to have come to blows.

"There was a slight misunderstanding and communication gap between them," Nepal's Tourism Ministry official Dipendra Paudel told the BBC in a most diplomatic fashion, adding: "this has been sorted out and the climbers are at the base camp."

While Steck is said to be waiting for a flight home, Moro reportedly wants to finish what he came out to do.

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And as there is no recorded evidence of the fight, here is a reenactment of the mountain brawl as interpreted by a bear and a cougar.