national Geographic magazine reviews that ski-mountaineer Hilaree O’Neill — a member of its 2012 Everest day trip — will apply the same route Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did in 1953, but with an iPad and
iPhone in her backpack. iPad offers O’Neill a journaling device with an exceptional-state data storage pressure usable at altitudes the place spinning laborious disk drives have been recognized to fail. And with cell service on hand even on Everest’s summit, she’ll use an iPhone 4S to stay involved as an alternative of a cumbersome walkie-talkie.
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