http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/technology/circuits/23sher.html If you remember my comments about the remarkable sherpa i met in kathmandu relative to the SANOG conference which opens there today, the above URL takes you to a very good story in todays new york times....1400 words with 3 pictures ....unfortunately the picture the times published is of the wrong base camp.... they published the north face which is in china not the south face base camp which is in nepal. sigh oh...everest not likely pingable for another 60 days -- ======================================================== The COOK Report on Internet, 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) cook@cookreport.com Subscription info & prices at http://cookreport.com/subscriptions.shtml Summary of content for 10 years at http://cookreport.com/past_issues.shtml VoIP Enterprise Adopt & Open Spectrum January Feb 2003 107 pages available at http://cookreport.com/11.11.shtml ========================================================