Written by Kat Hannaford at Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/people/KatHannaford/posts/) and others (Raymond Wong at Dvice – http://dvice.com/archives/author/raymond_wong-) , report that also mount Everest is covered with 3G signal thanks to 8 masts mounted around (Full article at http://gizmodo.com/5676300/the-worlds-tallest-mountain-has-gone-3g and at http://dvice.com/archives/2010/10/mountain-climbe.php).
While I can understand that it helps in giving security to climbers and improves, maybe, local conditions, I suffer for seeing Everest violated and reduced to a commercial locations.
Some respect for culture and nature is always needed.
Hope that at least the technology developed helps in connecting and giving access to informations for 3rd and 4th world people.
This post as a comment also at http://gizmodo.com/5676300/the-worlds-tallest-mountain-has-gone-3g and at http://dvice.com/archives/2010/10/mountain-climbe.php
I saw something about this topic on TV last night. Good post.