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 »
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 »
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.