Tag: HIMALAYAS

There may not be a whole lot of people willing to climb Mount Everest, but the brave few who do will now be able to surf the Web from their phones, thanks to a brand new 3G network at Everest base camp. Installed by the Nepali telecom company Ncell (which we wrote about back in 2009), Nepal's first 3G network will allow intrepid mountain climbers to use their own cell phones to stay in touch ...

Not all of us have the time, money or (let's be honest) the cojones for extreme adventures, like paragliding the entirety of the Himalayan mountain range. Thanks to modern technology though, we can all live vicariously through the Himalayan Odyssey Team's trip of just that nature, as we sit comfortably in our cubicles. The group of five gliders will be traversing 800 miles of mountains, from ...