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Saturday, 15 February, 2003, 13:39 GMT
High hopes for Everest cybercafe
![]() The number of expeditions has increased
Tsering Gyalzen hopes the internet facility at Mount Everest base camp will open by March.
The cafe launch comes weeks before the 50th anniversary of the first Everest ascent by Tenjing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary. Mr Gyalzen, a member of the Sherpa community, says launch plans for the ambitious project are in the final stage. He told the BBC he was awaiting permission from the authorities to install VSAT digital satellite and other equipment at the base camp, which is over 5,000 metres above sea level. He is already building a hut nearly two hours trek from the camp, which will house satellite equipment to transmit signals through radio links to the internet cafe. Dream Thousands of members of expeditions visiting Everest base camp will benefit from the new facility, Mr Gyalzen says.
Local schools and communities will also be allowed to use the cafe, to develop skills and widen their horizons. Mr Gyalzen, a 33-year-old science graduate, says he is financing nearly half of the estimated $40,000 project himself. A number of foreign firms have offered hardware and other equipment. Mr Gyalzen says his grandfather - Gyalzen Sherpa, one of the support staff in the famous Everest ascent of 1953 - would be happy to learn about the cafe. It is Mr Gyalzen's dream project and he says he is determined it will succeed whatever happens.
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