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rock_fencer

Oct 30, 2010, 1:46 AM
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...ce-tech_and_gadgets/

I can see the benefits for initiating fast rescues, but really do you need 3G coverage when your on everest???

banjolele

Oct 30, 2010, 1:51 AM
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rock_fencer wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...ce-tech_and_gadgets/

I can see the benefits for initiating fast rescues, but really do you need 3G coverage when your on everest???

The people shelling out 60k to hike everest are probably renting sat phones anyways, and I sincerely doubt the locals will complain having accessible communications to the outside world.

irregularpanda

Oct 30, 2010, 3:55 AM
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rock_fencer wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...ce-tech_and_gadgets/

I can see the benefits for initiating fast rescues, but really do you need 3G coverage when your on everest???

Ad this to my laundrylist of how Everest continues to be de-valued and generally raped by rich western assholes.

skiclimb

Oct 30, 2010, 3:58 AM
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I like it.

majid_sabet

Oct 30, 2010, 5:51 AM
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rock_fencer wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...ce-tech_and_gadgets/

I can see the benefits for initiating fast rescues, but really do you need 3G coverage when your on everest???

initiating fast rescues

make sure you do not say this to rescuers cause they either think you are high on some Himalayan Hashish or gonner on the Mexican junga.

seriously, there are no such thing as initiating fast rescues on high altitude.

airscape

Oct 30, 2010, 8:50 AM
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Facebook status: "I've g3t pulmanory oedema lolz"

patto

Oct 30, 2010, 9:25 AM
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airscape wrote:

Facebook status: "I've g3t pulmanory oedema lolz"

Nice!

rangerrob

Oct 31, 2010, 4:05 AM
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It's gonna happen one way or another. Who cares. I'm not going there anyway. Supposedly you can get weak cell coverage from the summit of the Mooses Tooth in Alaska, as you have line of sight to Talkeetna and you're not that far. Personally, I like the fact that there are places in this wolrd where this technology doesn't work, and I seek those places out over connected ones.

wiki

Oct 31, 2010, 5:52 AM
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Damn! when do I get to work on those towers?!

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