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Everest cell tower hibernates for the winter

Michael Motal

not 38% 

Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 13:55 GMT

Coat

There's the same amount of oxygen up there, but partial pressure of oxygen (and everything else) is different (lower), making less oxygen get into our blood (simply put).

Fluffykins

Bloody cellphone base stations 

Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 13:55 GMT

Why couldn't the poor sap be given an Iridium phone. That way there's no need to dump yet more junk in the place!!

TeeCee

What would Dom Joly say? 

Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 13:55 GMT

Coat

<crap Nokia noise>

I'M ON THE SUMMIT!

Daniel B.

Incoming call... 

Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 17:21 GMT

Coat

ring ring ...

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!!!!

*beep beep: Low Battery*

I made it! I'm in. ... *power off*

Hell if you'll ever be able to find a charger up there!

Rick Brasche

Why something so simple as a tower? 

Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 18:25 GMT

Flame

since China's had such a big hard-on for showing off the result it's massively increased military expenditures, why don't they do some sort of UAV based system or aerostat, or some other bit of techno-killbot boffinry? (ack, channeled Mr. page for a moment there)

Or has their program for 'accidentally" poisoning the children of other nations taken higher priority than their Olympic prestige?

Graham Dawson

This is one of the dafter ideas I've heard... 

Posted Wednesday 14th November 2007 23:18 GMT

Everest, believe it or not, still kills people. There's a corpse *sitting* on the final slope of a guy who sat down and couldn't get up again. From what I was told he spent almost four hours on the phone with his wife pleading for him to get up. I think he's still holding it.

Of course that was before the phone masts. Those satellite phones get pretty good coverage. Now it'll be "Yeah, I'm on Everest! EVEREST! THE MOUNTAIN! No, it's crap!"