A British man has set a world record by making the first mobile telephone call from the summit of Mount Everest, taking the blessing -- or curse -- of the cell phone to new heights."It's cold, it's fantastic, the Himalayas are everywhere," Rod Baber said in the phone call from the top of the 8,848-metre (29,198-foot) peak early on Monday morning, according to a voice recording posted on his weblog.
His achievement was made possible by China Telecom, which has set up a mobile phone tower at base camp on the north side of the mountain.
The call is one of several high altitude stunts being carried out in the current Everest climbing season.
Last week a Briton pulled off the season's first big stunt by making the first flight over the summit using a powered paraglider.
A Nepali mountaineer has also broken his own world record by scaling the peak for a breathtaking seventeenth time.
Other daredevils on the mountain include Wim "Iceman" Hof, a Dutchman attempting to scale the peak wearing just shorts, boots, gloves and a cap.
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