PCMag.Com - Sending a message from the top of Mount Everest is, perhaps, one of the most difficult tasks on this Earth. For not only do you have to climb the 29,035-foot mountain to do so, no small feat given the ten successes for every one death survival rate associated with the multi-week climb, but you also have to find some way to acquire a signal atop "Earth's roof."Well, English mountaineer Kenton Cool has done the impossible–not only has he scaled Everest, but he's the first person on Earth to successfully send a Twitter message from the mountain's summit. You read that correctly: He Tweeted Everest.
"Everest summit no 9! 1st tweet from the top of the world thanks to a weak 3G signal & the awesome Samsung Galaxy S2 handset! @samsunguk," wrote Cool, shortly before he made a phone call to his wife as well—the first 3G call made atop the mountain, we should note. Read More
