Space Technology to Conquer Everest

Roland Piquepaille writes "These days, the European Space Agency (ESA) is busy sharing its space technologies. Last week, in "Space technology hits the slopes," it said that the ski maker Rossignol hopes to beat the world speed skiing record of 250 km/h by using skis stabilized by a mechanism developed for ESA's Rosetta spacecraft. And today, the ESA announced that a satellite-based Health Monitoring Kit developed by the Canadian company March Networks and co-funded by ESA, will help climbers to escalate Everest. Of course, this kind of technology can be applied at lower altitudes. This overview contains other details and references about the March Networks Health Monitoring Kit."

Comments

escalate?

[evanbd]

Escalate??

I mean really, is it such a hard word? You scale a mountain. Or you climb a mountain. But escalate means something entirely different. A problem escalates. Not a mountain.

Re:huh?

[nilbog]

woops...wrong thread

Re:When people climb Everest

[LOL WTF OMG!!!!!!!!!]

But if they're stuck near the top of the mountain, dying, there isn't much anybody can do. I don't think it's possible to get helicopters up that high (they use those to get the base camp which I believe it at around 18k feet).