Cybercafe At Mt. Everest

Makarand writes "A Nepalese entrepreneur, Tsering Gyalzen, is making plans to set up a cybercafe at Mt Everest basecamp and open it by March. Proceeds from the venture will be used to support solid waste management in the area. VSAT digital satellite equipment installed a 2-hour trek-distance away from base camp will be used to send signals to the internet cafe using radio links."

Comments

In other news....

[ebbomega]

Three Starbucks have just recently set themselves up on the same corner....

cool

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks, but i'll pass hauling myself 20000 ft up on a mountain.. when i can get it right here in my warm, heated house :-)

Nice

[Anonymous Coward]

This must be the only environment my duron 1.3 won't crash of overheating at 36Ghz.

Super computing, here I come!

One of the obstacles...

[ATAMAH]

we'd have to overcome to get there is:

x-wing:/# mount everest
mount: can't find everest in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Re:One of the obstacles...

[floydman]

its:

mount -t slippery -o username=freezing,password=ass EVEREST /peak

Dear Ma

[Salsaman]

help I'm faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllliiinnnnngggggggg. ..

Hmm?

[Anonymous Coward]

First Everest... next, the restaurant at the end of the Universe?

Gonna

[Timesprout]

need a few new empticons for the new experiences

gasping for breath
just fallen on my ass
just fallen on my ice axe
altitude induced gushing nose bleeds
fscking sherpa just ran off with all the oxygen

Last Chance for Reason

[coloth]

This "CyberCafe" may offer thrill-seeking Westerners and Japanese their last opportunity to communicate with their right-thinking loved ones, and be talked out of another ridiculous ego trip.

I, for one, would sponsor an EverQuest account at this cafe to snag these folks in a more controlled environment. At least until they are incapacitated by repetitive-stress injuries.

Then they could be transported to a safer uber-thrill, like a ride on the Vomit Comet or, perhaps, a scintillating decade of psychotherapy.

That sucks....

[abc_los]

I guess they're going to put my network consulting firm on K2 out of business

Oh just great!

[AndroidCat]

Rather than getting email "business offers" from Nigerian cybercafes, I'll get them from Everest. I can see it now:

Dear Sir.
Your contact information was referred to me by one of my trusted contacts, whose name I am not at liberty to compromize. I would like to approach you with reguards to a profitable Business Proposal, reguarding the transfer of TEN MILLION ($10000000) U.S. Dollars into your Bank Account. For reasons I am sure you will appreciate, I ask that you keep this commucation confidential, and avoid it falling into the hands of any agents of the Royal Nepal Yak Mounted Police that may be operating in Your area.

My name is Tsering Gyaltsen Sherpa, and I am the grandson of Gyalzen Sherpa, the recently Deceased Serpa of Nepal. If you have been following the events in my country over the last few years, you will remember the big scandal that took place when Gyalzen was found dead in an alley, from an alledged overdose of Tylenol Flu. [snip]

I swear those Nigerian 419 scammers must use a page like this one to generate their scam letters.

An Idea

[DarwinDan]

Here's an idea...since only a handful of people go there and it's expensive to set up a VSAT, why not have someone from Corporate America sponsor the base camp? I could just see it now: Enron Camp...

Here you go

[SuperKendall]

<i>gasping for breath</i>
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8-X
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<i> just fallen on my ass</i>
:-B*

<i>just fallen on my ice axe
/
:-/(
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<i>altitude induced gushing nose bleeds</i>
^^^ :<(=============

<i>fscking sherpa just ran off with all the oxygen</i>
8<( [O2O2O2]%-)

Very solid waste

[Zog The Undeniable]

Proceeds from the venture will be used to support solid waste management in the area.

Given the temperatures on Everest, I expect Sir Edmund Hillary's poo is still up there and perfectly intact. Perhaps they could use the "solid waste" to construct traditional cairns as a memorial to those mountaineers that died trying to reach the summit, but that no-one really liked?