She said needles could be switched from point north to south, sending people off in the wrong direction while trying to navigate off a hill or mountain in foul weather.
All too often Everest hits the news for the wrong reasons - climbers left to die high on the mountain, or piles of rubbish littering the slopes - but for Luanne such rescues show the spirit of Base Camp.
For example, the prediction that we would have self-driving cars was regarded as wrong even though Google self-driving cars have logged over 200, 000 miles in traffic from Mountain View to Santa Monica and back in California.