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Expedition technology - sorting out the difference
Jul 18, 2005 15: 19 EST
South Pole, North Pole, the Drake Passage, a stroll through Tibet, the Appalachian trail, Afghanistan, Everest death zone, Karakorum climbers, Antarctica meteor hunters, ocean rowers, Greenland speed expeditions and Tsunami aid workers - what do they all have in common? Contact 3.0!
Laptops and sat phones are common in expeditions where gear can sit snuggly in base camps or travel smooth and temperate paths. E-mails are sent to webmasters for manual updates.
The "sexiest package in Himalaya"
It becomes a lot trickier when dispatches are live, and the hardware must work in high camps, on speedy travel, in rough terrain and extreme conditions.
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