The world's highest 3G mobile network services base station is currently set up at the bottom of Mount Everest.
Ncell, a mobile phone and internet operator in Nepal, said it set up a 3G base at an altitude of 5,200 meters (17,000 feet) near the village of Gorakshep, according to Aigars Benders, the chief technical officer of Ncell.
The service is mainly targeted at the approximately 30,000 tourists who come to trek in Nepal's Himalayan region every year.
A few hundred mountaineers attempt to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain at 8,848 meters (29,028 feet) and it is estimated that the annual total number of mountaineers in the region number several hundred.
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