Gavin Bate, an Irish mountain climber, is climbing Mount Everest and recording his ascent to the world’s highest peak via Twitter. Bate, who is climbing for his charity Moving Mountains, has been climbing Mount Everest for the past 37 days and has been tweeting updates, his coordinates, and links to his podcast from his climb. He’s also been posting updates to his blog.
It’s pretty amazing that Bate has managed to Tweet up there with the thin air and thick gloves. In his blog post, Bates writes that he’s had help breathing via bottled oxygen and he’s planning to take his laptop with him to Tweet for the summit. He also has been carrying an assortment of gadgets with him to connect him to the rest of the world, including a solar panel, video camera, telephone, laptop, satellite dish, camera, and a satellite tracking device.
Bate, an experienced climber, has tried climbing Mount Everest 4 times before and has yet to reach the summit. He’s been using a satellite phone to Tweet and call in his podcasts. Bates’ most recent Tweet included his GPS location on the his ascent to Everest’s summit. He’s expected to reach within the next 24 hours.
Bate has also been selling Tweets from the top of Mount Everest on Ebay for charity. The offer was taken up by one of Bate’s sponsers, Woolworths, though it’s not clear how much the company is paying for the Tweet from the top of the world. Bates was looking to receive a bid as high as $13,500, according to the Ebay auction page. All charity proceeds from Bate’s climb will go to funding development in Nepal and Kenya.
If I tweet from my bathroom during my morning dump will you do a story on it?
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But only “it” spells out Twitter
Astronauts do not have twitter yet ?
They do. Some dbag from Nasa tweeted from space the other day. This whole thing is pathetic.
@Astro_Mike (Mike Massimino) is Tweeting while orbiting the Earth on the latest space shuttle mission.
Man, these Twitter posts get more ridiculous by the day.
That’s nothin. I got a tweet from God.
bad post techcrunch – get some real news (was on digg like last week)
The guy posts to his blog and records podcasts, but only Twitter is worthy of the headline???
I find it ironic that people think people who are doing awesome things with their lives tweeting are ‘pathetic’, yet there are about a zillion people tweeting ‘going to the grocery store’ and ‘watching tv’ and no one seems to have a problem with that
I don’t think that people are saying the mountain climber is pathetic.. the fact that we are looking another news story about someone tweeting is though.
At the same time, the Eddie Bauer team is sending down frequent videos of their trip. It’s the “First Ascent” team: http://blog.firstascent.com/
i’m going to be tweeting from yosemite this weekend. nothing but me, my buddies, our satellite phones and bear.
Yawn
Techcrunch is twitter OD?
http://chimein.mobi/techrunch
Who want to follow me?I’m tweeting from my bed zzzz….
Wow someone sent a message from on a mountain. Lets post about it. People really care.
can you guys please suggest some tech blogs actually worth the read that update often? i like venturebeat and readwriteweb… but need more [and techcrunch is so lame]
go tweet under water as deep as you can.
I didn’t care to read the story, so I clicked on the comments, it registers a hit for the story. Shame on TC. Comments are better than story, but you aren’t collecting that info apparently.
i remember the days when those amazing people came home with just a story. that’s how i’d do it. twitter is getting really annoying. ashton isn’t helping.
Please stop blogging about trivial things. Venturebeat is my preferred tech/biz blog now thanks to your drivel. Way to go.
I’m sure they are all broken up inside.
sorry to say but twitter sucks not to be mean to everyone
And I thought I was awesome for tweeting from 10,000 ft
http://twitter....atus/1623966886
Yeah, you guys are a real threat to traditional news media.
I accidently removed my Twitteraccount. I can’t restore him, I’m not reveicing the restore email. Anyone an solution? Twitter isn’t answering there supportsection
Um… @Astro_Mike still wins. Hard to top tweeting FROM ORBIT.
That’s a great achievement with or without twitter. Just hope his fingers didn’t get frostbite. Rgds Vince
I just have one thing to say…there must be some helluva good phone reception up there.
Can we please be at the point where tweeting is no longer newsworthy?
There are more than 30 active expeditions up there and a bunch of them are Tweeting from the mountain. If you follow mountaineering and are on Twitter it’s a fun way to keep up with the action. It’s how many of us learned of the avalanches and death of a sherpa a couple of weeks ago. It’s also how I learned that @timrippel summited today.
Dude Gavin seems a pretty swell guy – check his face to face:
http://www.yout...h?v=n69yPQGcSJY