Eleanor Hawkins facing imprisonment for upsetting mountain gods with her nudity & causing an earthquake

Twenty-four-year-old Eleanor Hawkins has been arrested after she and several others stripped down on a sacred Malaysian mountain, the New Zealand Herald reports. Now some are blaming the recent earthquake on the disrespectful act.

Hawkins and her friends took off their clothes for a photo op, despite their guide warning them not to, because Mount Kinabalu was considered sacred. The group allegedly told the guide to "go to hell," according to the official complaint. One of the hikers, Emil Kaminski, 33, posted a photo online, which caught the attention of the local government, who are taking it very seriously. Although Hawkins is the only one who has been arrested, the others are wanted.

Tan Sri Alfred Jabu, the deputy first minister of Sarawak, which borders

the mountain, said that the hikers' disrespectful actions bought about the earthquake that killed 13 people last week. "Some places have their own historical background and are sacred to the local community and, as such, visitors to these places should respect the place, the local traditions and cultures. We local people believe that there is someone, the guardians of these places, and there is a form of order of sacredness for those who go to the mountain to respect," he said.

Hawkins's father has come to her defense, saying it was just a mistake and she wasn't fully aware of what she was doing. Hawkins had been celebrating getting her master's degree and was planning on traveling through Southeast Asia. Her father hopes that the local government doesn't "make an example out of her."

Kaminiski, meanwhile, has posted a YouTube video defending their actions and calling the local government (and anyone who was "enraged over this thing") stupid. "It's just a fucking mountain," he counters. He tells people not to conform to local cultures and instead think for themselves.