Less than genuine advertising.

I have been looking at a range of expedition websites and heli charter services in Nepal and it is blatantly clear that many are next to useless.  Many advertise that they will be having expeditions but they never do.  It is just a waste of time.

Similarly many heli charter services are effectively resellers or separate legal entities for the sake of taxation.  I have found that only a handful are genuine and respond to your queries (genuine such as Fishtail Air and Mountain Helicopters Nepal to name a couple).

Maybe it is a cultural thing but advertising services that one does not follow-through just wastes people's time.  It also damages the reputation of those companies.

If you look at all the wide range of expeditions that many companies claim to offer, they probably only offer 1/10 of what is advertised in any given year.  Expeditions are also highly dependent upon cross company efforts and thus the success is not based on a single company, but how broader team work is organised to reduce freeloading.  This is particularly true when trying to organise fixed lines.  I noticed this at Cho Oyu where large expedition groups would try to maximise their freeloading.  When you see these meetings where they are looking at effort and equipment contributions to set fixed lines, it is frustrating because of the B.S. These delays are actually hampering the very same clients that pay them in the first place.

For this reason, I can definitely see the appeal of the movement to self-supported expeditions, where those that are highly skilled can just do it by themselves.  Kudos to them.  I personally would like to move towards that space where there is a reduction of reliance on fixed lines, but I would need to get better first.