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Audioblogging From Kilimanjaro Via Satellite Phone

Posted by michael on Mon Jan 17, 2005 05:32 AM
from the got-any-hot-chocolate? dept.
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GlucoPilot writes "Apparently a charity called Cops On Top is climbing Kilimanjaro as a memorial to the late Officer Isaac Espinoza of the SFPD. That in itself is pretty amazing, but the /. amazing thing is that they are AudioBlogging the whole thing via Satellite Phone by calling to an audioblogging site and having their MP3s automatically posted to their dasBlog (open source blogging system) at www.copsontop.com/climblog. Cool stuff. Their latest blog post is at 15,500 ft."
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  • sat phone (Score:2, Interesting)

    by juggle88 (306897)
    The nice thing about sat phone is: the higher you climb the mountain, the clearer your audioblog.
    • Our destruction of the ozone doesn't hurt either. :)

      One thing we can thank W for.

        • Re:sat phone (Score:1, Insightful)

          by Anonymous Coward
          Him? No.... The guy is too dumb to tie his shoe laces. I blame the morons who voted for him.
  • From the blog:

    "We plan to build a bridge between the two peaks."

  • ....and then... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by gl4ss (559668) on Monday January 17 2005, @05:41AM (#11384031) Homepage Journal
    you decided to melt it with slashdot?

    audioblogs.. well. this is just about the only time where they actually DO make sense. otherwise the content if it were worth anything would have been better to write down..

    one other thing, audioblogs are bandwith heavy! very heavy! not only that, but people with automatised fetchers will make you hefty traffic.. even when they don't actually listen to the shit.

    (besides, if you want to run an internet radio just start one)

  • I'll be impressed... (Score:3, Funny)

    by liangzai (837960) on Monday January 17 2005, @05:45AM (#11384040) Homepage
    ... when I hear about the first blog from the moon.

  • I've climbed Kili. (Score:5, Informative)

    by haeger (85819) on Monday January 17 2005, @05:57AM (#11384070)
    Most amazing thing I've ever done. It seems that the glaciers on the top (at 5895m) are melting, probably because of global warming.

    If You want to see what the "Cops on top" are seeing, have a look at these photos.

    Monkeys. [studenter.hb.se]
    Mandara Hut [studenter.hb.se]
    Our porters. [studenter.hb.se]
    Long way to walk. [studenter.hb.se]
    Kilimanjaro from a distance. [studenter.hb.se]
    Mountainrat. [studenter.hb.se]
    The summit. [studenter.hb.se]
    The summit. [studenter.hb.se]
    The crater. [studenter.hb.se]
    The Glacier. [studenter.hb.se]
    Gillmans point. [studenter.hb.se]
    Our feet after walking for a day [studenter.hb.se]

    .haeger

    • The [elsie.org.uk] view [elsie.org.uk] is [elsie.org.uk] amazing [elsie.org.uk].

      I would recommend it to anyone.

      (If you want to see those pictures for more than about 5 minutes, mirror them please!)

    • I assume that your feet were just sweating out pigments from your boots or socks, otherwise we'd call you Stubby, right?
      • I assume that your feet were just sweating out pigments from your boots or socks, otherwise we'd call you Stubby, right?

        Actually, that's dirt from the road. It got through our boots. It was very dusty there. We had to open up the camera and clean it from dust too when we came home.

        .haeger

      • I did a month in tanzania for £3k (all in from the UK) you should still be able to do it for that. (see my tz blog [sucs.org])

        As with everything in africa haggle on the price, and larger groups = cheaper

        Tanzania is safe, Just dont go out alone after dark, and keep a eye on your valubles... as always check your goverments recomendations on such things
  • Don't forget to visit the Golden Shower restaurant in nearby Moshi. It's a ... refreshing experience.

    Greets to all waafrika. :)

  • Hey that's a great idea (Score:5, Funny)

    by Illserve (56215) on Monday January 17 2005, @06:37AM (#11384143)
    I'm going to take a vacation to Tahiti as a memorial to my recently deceased friend.

    I'm taking up a collection via paypal, email me for information.

  • 15,500 ft... can someone tell what's that in rods?
  • Entry 1: "Sort of cold here."

    Entry 2: "Getting higher, getting colder."

    Entry 3: "Damn, my nuts are freezing."

    Entry 4: "Holy f***ing sh**!!! Whose idea was this?"

    Entry 5: "Cabn't tabalk. Mah mowbouth ibis nubumb. Cobold! Cobold! Cobold!"

    Entry 6: "Found a sheltered valley where everyone lives in peace. It's actually warm and lush. Who would have believed it? The GPS is saying our coordinates are.... Hey! Put down that spear! Arrrrggghhhh!!!!!"

    No further entries.

  • Perhaps /. could introduce audio reply's for them times when only spoken words can express your true feelings.
    • I can't imagine anybody abusing something like that.
      After all, the trolls would never find a way to produce an audible version of goatse or, god forbid, tubgirl.

      Please excuse me, I feel queezy just thinking about it.

  • Audioblogging From Kilimanjaro

    Audioblogging From Kilimanjaro

    Audiokilling From Bloggi.. DAMN.

  • Macho Bullshit (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I was up Kili in 2001 and at one of the huts (we took the coca-cola route) we met up with some RCMP (canadian federal police) that were headed to the summit as some kind of similar fundraising/memorial deal. They had their sat phone, usb camera and laptop with them and thought they were the shit. Of course, being macho idiots they hooted and hollered all around the site and proudly proclaimed how they were all going to summit and have happy pictures to prove it. That two of them were part-time Elvis impe
  • Everestnews.com has been carrying blogs from Everestr since before the 1996 "Thin Air" disaster. The 2005 season is starting to prepare now. Typically the hoards arrive in early April, to acclimatize for an ascent assualt during a weather window in mid-May. About 300 summitted last year.

  • Amazing??! (Score:4, Insightful)

    by prakslash (681585) on Monday January 17 2005, @10:43AM (#11385557)
    What the fuck is so amazing about this?

    People climb the Kilimanjaro everyday on their vacations.

    Look up Google [google.com] on hundreds of Kilimanjaro Vacation Climb Packages complete with transportation, hotels, hot dinners and a Satellite Phone.

    I wish someone could set up a charity for me to do this. I'll take whatever plaque they want me to take.

    Fucking stupid..

  • It seems there's a conventional wisdom that audio-blogging is a bad idea, except for certain applications like this. I think that's crap. I think that the web was a bridge to blogs, which are a bridge to audio and video blogging, which is itself a bridge to a time in the near future where everyone has their own "channel" and it's as easy to blog your life as it is today to push-button publish on blogger.com. In other words, just extend all the metaphors of forums and blogs -- some are public, some require i
  • I thought about the tools to audio blog and have devised a free solution utilising a telephone, but haven't had the chance to do a proof-of-concept yet. It requires you to sign up for a free SIPphone.com [sipphone.com] account (via their free softphone download). To do a quick audioblog (or a voice memo for that matter): 1) you dial the SIPphone number---if you're on a PSTN network, you dial one of the access numbers and then your sipphone number; 2) you leave a voice mail; 3) under your sipphone settings, the voicemail i
  • Sounds like a gay porno movie.

    That, or one of Theodore Geisels lesser known works.
  • Here is an excerpt of a recent Monty Python audio blog [ibras.dk] from one of the peaks of Kilimanjaro:

    GEORGE: Now, uh, let me fill you in. I'm leading theis expedition, and we're going to climb both peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

    ARTHUR: I thought there was only one peak, sir.

    GEORGE (covers one eye and looks at his map): Well, that'll save a bit of time. Well done. Now, the object of this expedition is to see if we can find any traces of last year's expedition.

    ARTHUR: Last year's expedition.

    GEORGE: Yes, my brothe

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