Tue, 05/01/2012 - 03:39 — Anonymous Outside's Grayson Schaffer is
spending two months blogging from base camp—and, as he notes in one of his
early posts, he's doing so without the use of a spendy satellite
connection: Until the 1970s and '80s, most Everest expeditions included two
porters who did nothing but run mail dispatches from Base Camp to the nearest
village. No longer. This year, multiple climbers at Base Camp are snapping
photos on their iPhones and sharing them through Instagram and Facebook in
real time. That's possible because of Nepal's dominant cell phone
service, Ncell. In 2010, the provider announced plans to bring 3G coverage
all the way to Mount Everest. Now it's here. Just one more sign of our
inexorably shrinking planet. World Hum
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