In reply to UKH Articles:
It is difficult to know where it has gone; I would be tempted to argue that Nepal has as good a claim to this as the UK does - but I doubt that is where it has gone. There are some candidate museums on the continent that might have been able to afford the axe, and who might be interested, but almost all would recognise the political problems with such a swoop and I think, would only have interfered after having first asked representatives of the mountaineering community here. That said, I can think of one museum that this is not really true of, so there is still some hope that it will appear abroad...