Mount Everest set to go online
Some 50 years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest, the legendary mountain is to get its own internet café – the world’s highest.
Despite the fact that there is no electricity and no plumbing at the 17,000-feet-high proposed site, the café (which will in fact be a stone shed enclosed by a tent) will boast eight terminals powered by generators and solar-powered batteries.
According to The Times, the satellite equipment that will allow the facility to operate will be based in a separate hut some two-hours’ trek away.
The man behind the project, Tenzing Gyalzen, told the newspaper the café should be open in time for the spring, when the main trekking season starts.
Up 50,000 mountaineers and trekkers visit the Everest base camp over the course of a year. Gyalzen said: “It is a very challenging project, both technically and when it is operational.”
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