How High is Your AP?

DeAshcroft writes "The New York Times has a piece [give up your data] on the wiring of Everest. Tsering Gyaltsen, the grandson of one of Sir Edmund Hillary's orignal summit-conquering Sherpas is bringing the net to the mountain (presumably bringing the mountain to the net was even more difficult). He's attracted a great set of 'technologists' to make this happen, and, best of all, it means the locals get access (including a school of about 250 students), not just the rich geeks who come to town to climb the thing."

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Err, is this what people climb Everest for?

[melonman]

You have survived the cold, the wind, the yetis, you are exhausted but exhilarated as you pull yourself over the final ledge and collapse onto the summit, and then you notice an urgent beeping in your pocket. In your rush to extract your PDA with frost-bitten fingers, you overbalance and fall backwards. As you plummet towards certain death, you just have time to read that you can get herbal viagra at an unbeatable price...