Tanzania has installed high-speed internet services on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, allowing anyone on a smartphone to tweet, Instagram or WhatsApp to climb Africa’s highest mountain. State-owned Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation on Tuesday installed a broadband network at an altitude of 3,720 meters (12,200 ft), with Information Minister Nape Nnau describing the event as historic. “Previously, it was a bit dangerous for visitors and porters, who had to work without internet,” Nanouye said at the launch of the service, along with government officials and tourists.
“All the visitors will join … (to this point of the mountain), he said in one of the camps on the way to the peak, Horombo Huts.
He said the summit of the 5,895 m (19,300 ft) mountain would have internet connectivity by the end of the year.
Last year, the Tanzanian government announced plans to build a cable car south of Kilimanjaro, sparking an uproar among climbers, expedition companies and environmentalists.
Mount Kilimanjaro is an important source of tourism revenue in Tanzania and neighboring Kenya, with about 35,000 people attempting to summit it each year.
Immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, the mountain is a national park as well as part of UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Technology has increasingly infiltrated the world of mountaineering, with climbers on Mount Everest enjoying easy access to WiFi, power generators and smartphones that make it possible to share photos and make SOS calls in the event of an accident.
In contrast, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain on May 29, 1953, the news did not reach the outside world until June 2, the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation.
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