When the Olympic torch reaches the top of Mount Everest en route to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing the athlete carrying the flame will be able to chat away on a cell-phone. China Mobile is the only Mobile phone operator who is providing service at Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high).
The organisers of the Beijing Olympic Games are planning to take the Olympic Flame to Mount Everest during the Olympic Torch Relay, an event of major symbolic importance starting by March, 2008. China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone operator, will make it possible for climbers and those in 2008's Olympic torch relay to make calls.
At an altitude of 21,315 feet, the company hired porters and yaks to transport equipment and material to the station site. The whole process lasted 20 days. The new station, along with two other China Mobile stations at 17,060 feet and 19,095 feet, will provide cell phone service along the entire Mount Everest climbing route.-PR