KATHMANDU: A plan to scatter Edmund Hillary's ashes on the summit of Mount Everest has been cancelled after Buddhist priests in Nepal warned it would bring bad luck, organisers said today. Apa Sherpa, who has scaled the world's highest peak a record 19 times, had hoped to honour Hillary's contribution to the Sherpa communities that inhabit the Everest region by taking some of his ashes to the summit. But today, the organisers of Apa's expedition said they had decided against the plan on the advice of the Sherpas, a Buddhist people who revere Mount Everest as holy. "We met a citizens' committee here and they talked to us about the ashes. The old lamas said it would be inauspicious to take the ashes to a holy place," said expedition organiser Dawa Steven Sherpa.