The world's most remote restaurant? Really?

I'm a reader of Gizmodo and ran across an article and pictures about a remote restaurant and it's perilous position at the top of a mountain.   Intrigued by the logistics given the images (the whole point of the story) I ran a search and located the actual "story" out of Wikipedia.  Although not really the same story but a tall tale playing on parts of the real location, Mount Hua, in China.   Talk about search engine marketing.

The words "Somehow I doubt the veracity of this" was repeated over and over again from post to post, search engine result page to page as if the original poster rational was good enough for them to re-publish. So what lesson do we learn from this ripple effect of half truth journalism with no vetting of the story?  plenty.

• A silly blog post has legs.
• The real story is more interesting then the fiction.
• The ability for a story, any story, to go viral is irrational.
• Cable cars seem to make a mountain journey more enjoyable.
• content scrapers are all around us.

It's a monastery and temple complex.  It sounds wonderful and treacherous, but not a 'restraurant'. 

Most peaks are very steep and very difficult to climb. The south peak is the highest and at the top of it is a large pond in which there is very clear water never dry all year long     .Mount Hua   web site has some great pictures of the temples.  And a photo journey up one of the paths. 

Photo, 'Thousand feet cliff of the Hua Shan (Shaanxi, People's Republic of China) by

Ondřej Žváček