World\'s Highest Internet Cafe!

February 20, 2003 - 4:36pm — Aaron

Come March, next time you\'re on Everest you\'ll be able to check LISNews. Thanks to Tsering Gyalzen, grandson of a sherpa who assisted with the first ascent of Everest in 1953, climbers will have internet access at base camp. A friend of mine was concerend about the equipment taking away from the beauty of the mountain, but he didn\'t know the situation up there. All of the sieges on Eversest have left the standard South Col route littered with expired oxygen bottles, tents, and corpses. Profits from the Internet Cafe will benefit clean up of the mountain. Read the full story