Huawei on Mount Everest

Fri May 1 18:07:52 UTC 2020

You made me curious...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest

wow, I guess it would be great to be able to use cell/gps technology to communicate with and track a lost/endangered climber

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+aaron1=gvtc.com at nanog.org] On Behalf Of John Levine
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 12:58 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

In article <CAPLq3UMBY32ctWWSbNYd_QiXpHLb=YOxoXhBtacSeBRYEBO7JA at mail.gmail.com> you write:
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>https://telecoms.com/504051/huawei-and-china-mobile-stick-a-5g-base-station-on-mount-everest/
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>Why dont we leave the Everest alone? OTOH, we can now have tiktok
>videos and latest instagram posts from the summit.

Given how dangerous the ascent is, I would think it would be a good
thing for climbers to be able to check in and say whether they are OK.

I agree it's mostly a publicity stunt, though.