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Merry Christmas from Mount Everest (include 2 small jpgs)
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:59:18 -0500
To: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> From: Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com> Subject: Merry Christmas from Mount Everest Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: Dave please share this with IP I received this card received from Namche Bazzar (20 kilometers as the crow flies from the summit of Everest) about 2 hours ago. Sent in the middle of the night Nepal time from the Sherpa capital (3440 meters elevation) by v-sat to Kathmandu and from there to the global internet. Sent by Tsering Gyaltsen Sherpa, the grandson of the only surviving Sherpa who was on Hillary's 1953 first ascent. In June 2001 Maoist insurgents cut Namche's only telecom link to Kathmandu . Since then Tsering has put a small telecom company on the mountainside and via a v-sat rejoined the Solu Khumbu to the rest of the world in October 2002. Dave Hughes, I and 2 other americans are rendering technical assistance to Tsering via the Internet. Tsering will have a 802.11b link from Everest base camp (approx 5600 meters) to a vsat on Kalapathar at the foot of Pumori and from there to the global Internet. It will be in place in time for the beginning of the climbing season in March. At the request of Dave Hughes Cisco has agreed to make a grant-in-kind of the radios necessary to link a small LAN at base camp to the V-sat at Kalapathar. Aside from grant of the radios, the base camp installation will be a jointly funded effort by a Kathmandu ISP, the Shepa community and the Sagarmatha PCC. Tsering is a real inspiration. With efforts like this, there is, I believe, hope for the future. Via a direct Internet link to a pair of radios identical to those that Cisco is providing, Dave Hughes began today to train Tsering and two assistants who will set them up on the Khumbu glacier at 17,500 feet in about ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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