<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On May 1, 2020, at 11:07 AM, Aaron Gould <<a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com" class="">aaron1@gvtc.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">You made me curious...<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_climbing_Mount_Everest</a><br class=""><br class="">wow, I guess it would be great to be able to use cell/gps technology to communicate with and track a lost/endangered climber<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Depending on how high and the weather conditions, it might give a false sense of security. Or it might serve the same purpose as for Rob Hall (<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hall" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hall</a>) </span>in the 1996 Everest disaster (<font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster</a>), namely give you a chance to call </span></font>your pregnant wife and say goodbye. Tragic story.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Back to the NOG content: I agree, a publicity stunt, maybe useful for a bit of telemetry but I can’t imagine the hardware would survive more than a season.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">-drc</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>