Is this the world’s strangest summit cairn?

Take a look at the photo below, and tell me if you can see anything funny about it.

Don’t worry. It’s not a scene from War of the Worlds, and that’s not a Martian fighting machine behind Edita’s head, sneaking over the rock and preparing to zap her with a heat ray.

This is the summit of 3,880m Tibherine East in the High Atlas Mountains, a peak just a short distance below the north ridge of Jebel Toubkal, the highest mountain in Morocco.

That thing behind Edita is actually an old aircraft engi...