"It´s a very proud moment to be here. It´s been two-and-a-half-years in the making," said the British explorer in the video call which is the first ever video call made from the top of the Mount Everest.
"This is the world´s highest live video, never had been this before," said Daniel Hughes calling from the Everest by using HTC one smartphone.
He was there to the top of the world for raising huge money for UK based charity to end poverty from the world. Whereas Nepal government officials told media that he had not taken government permission to film Mount Everest, so the live video broadcast is taken to be illegal as permission is a must for filming and brodcasting in Everest. Raising serious concern over the issue, Nepali officials will be probing the incident and recommend legal action for the illegal broadcaster.
Here is the video clip of the first live video broadcast from Mount Everest.
At odds to the illegal broadcasting concern, many people might be curious about the 3G coverage in Mount Everest that made the video call possible. Ncell (a private GSM operator owned by Teliasonera) had provided the 3G mobile coverage there since 2.5 years ago which is quite useful for all those climbers to surf Internet from such a remote area. Though I knew this before, I was skeptic if there was any 3G coverage in the top.
