Subject: [NEXTEL-1] World's Highest Cyber Café Planned at Everest

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:29:18 -0500

World's Highest Cyber Café Planned at Everest

Tsering Gyaltsen, grandson of the sherpa in the first expedition to reach the
summit of Everest, plans to open a cyber café at the mountain's base camp at
17,400 feet. The café will use solar and generator power, and radio and satellite
connections to the Internet. Proceeds from the cyber café will be used to fund
the clean up the tons of trash left on Everest by thousands of trekkers and
climbers.
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Sherpa Plans World's Highest Cyber Cafe at Everest
Sat Feb 22, 8:44 AM ET

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The grandson of a Nepali sherpa in the first
expedition to scale Mount Everest (news - web sites) 50 years ago plans to
set up the world's highest Internet cafe at the mountain's base camp.

Tsering Gyaltsen, whose grandfather, Gyaltsen
Sherpa, was in the 1953 team that helped Sir
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the
29,040 foot summit, hopes to open the cafe
next month to cash in on a flood of visitors for
the anniversary.

Thousands of trekkers and mountaineers pass
through the base camp at 17,400 feet every
year and many expeditions carry satellite
phones into the Himalayas to run web sites
about their efforts and contact friends and
family at home.

Otherwise, the nearest phones are a four-day
trek away.

Gyaltsen, waiting for government permission to
go ahead, will use radio and satellite links and
solar and generator power.

Money from the cafe will go to a project to clear Everest of the hundreds of
tons of garbage left behind every year.

Nepal has eight of the world's 14 highest mountains The tens of thousands
of foreign tourists they attract annually are a major source of income for
what is one of the world's poorest nations.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030222/tc_nm/odd_nepal_internet_dc_2

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