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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #1123 Mount Everest
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There  was  a    when  the  summit  of  Mount  Everest  was  about  as  isolated  as  you  could  get,  but  now  climbers  who  reach  the  roof  of  the  world  will  be  able  to  pause  to  check  their    or  perhaps  surf  the  internet.

A  Nepalese  telecommunications  company  has    a  3G  mobile  phone  network  around  the  mountain  and  says  its  coverage  will  even  reach  the  summit.

Ncell  says  the  installation  of  base  stations  along  the    to  the  mountain  has,  for  the  first  time,  brought  a  mobile  data  service  to  local  people,  tourists  and  climbers.

When  Edmund  Hillary  and  Sherpa  Tenzing  reached  Everest's  summit  in  1953,  expedition  leaders  had  to  send  runners  to  carry    to  the  nearest  telegraph  office.

Satellite,  then  mobile  voice  phones  have  since  helped    travel  faster,  but  now  a  station  near  Everest  base  camp  in  the  Khumbu  valley  has  heralded  a  communications  revolution  in  the  Himalayan  country,  Ncell's  parent  company,  the  Swedish-based  TeliaSonera,  says.

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