Mount Everest

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There’s A Solar Powered Webcam Near The Top Of Mount Everest

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2:05PM September 30, 2011 | Alex Kidman

OK, I think it’s official. There’s nowhere on the planet you can escape the glare of a camera lens. Scientists from Italy have installed a solar powered, web enabled camera near the top of Mount Everest — and everybody’s invited to watch. More »


News

The Tragic, Unforeseen Death Of A Prediction Technology Mogul

4:55AM May 26, 2011 | Ryan Tate

John Delaney was reportedly just 45m from the peak of Mount Everest when he died on Saturday, having collapsed from an unknown medical condition. The Intrade founder passed away without knowing he had a new daughter. He was 42. More »


Software

Climb Mount Everest From Your Couch

11:40AM May 10, 2011 | Casey Chan

3D maps of Mount Everest is as old as 3D mapping itself. People see a big mountain and want to scale it… in 3D. But there’s now a 3D map of Everest that’s 400 times clearer than before. Details! More »


Online

Twitter Scales Mount Everest. Is Nowhere Sacred?

3:20AM May 7, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most dangerous, physically challenging things a human being can do. You’d think that if there were one place on Earth that could convince people to leave their phones at home, that would be it. You’d be wrong. More »


Cameras

This Is Not A Van Gogh Painting

12:20PM March 4, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Instead, photographer Anton Jankovoy spent months camping out at the foot of Mount Everest, waiting for the right moment to capture the “star trails”. The photograph itself takes hours to capture, as the stars move slowly through the sky. [Daily Mail]


Mount Everest Has Better 3G Reception Than We Do

6:10PM October 29, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Climbers of Mount Everest spent the past 24 hours updating Facebook statuses, after Nepal’s first-ever 3G connection was switched on yesterday at the base camp. The first use of the service? Making the world’s highest video call. [Reuters, Unitopia]


Cameras

Camera Could Rewrite History Books On Everest’s First Climbers

1:20PM January 27, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

In 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to become the first men to climb Mount Everest. Among the gear they packed was a Vest Pocket Kodak camera. They disappeared. Today, a search for that camera could rewrite history. More »


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Highest Mobile Call Ever Made From Everest

6:31PM May 22, 2007 | Addy Dugdale

A British man has made two phone calls from the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalaya. At 8,848 metres, Rod Baber’s two conversations have gone into the record books as the highest phone call ever made (let me tell you, I’ve made some when I’ve been minging off my mong cheeks and they’re not pretty). Find out without whom, etc etc, after the crevasse.

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