it's a small, small world

From the pages of The Economist:

A British climber made the first mobile-phone call from the summit of Mount Everest. He took advantage of a Chinese mobile-phone base to ring his family, presumably to ask if he should pick up anything on the way home.

I think I'd have asked him to bring me a snowball. Or a really big rock. Or maybe both.

Amazing that there is cell phone coverage up there but not in some remote parts of Lower Sackville (a suburb of Halifax).