Satellite phones are not enough, now anyone can “phone home”

A Nepali telecom company plans to place mobile phone towers at four places around Mt. Everest so you can use your mobile phone about anywhere on the peak. The coverage planned will allow cell phone calls from the summit of Mt. Everest. The work is expected to be completed this year.

I heard Sir Edmund Hilliary, the first person to summit Mt. Everest in 1953 say he best conversation he had with his son was when his son called with a satellite phone from the summit of Mt. Everest.

It took seven days for the news of Hilliary’s summit to reach England in 1953, now anyone can check on their laundry from the summit of Mt. Everest.

See Mt Everest to get mobile coverage