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Tanzania has installed a high-speed internet line on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to improve the safety of porters and climbers. State-owned Tanzania Telecommunications installed the line at 3,720 meters above sea level, which can give updated information to the porters and climbers about the weather conditions and other necessary information that would help to be under the cover of safety and security. The network will cover the peak at 5,895 meters by the end of the year
Tanzania has installed a high-speed internet line on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to improve the safety of porters and climbers. State-owned Tanzania Telecommunications installed the line at 3,720 meters above sea level, which can give updated information to the porters and climbers about the weather conditions and other necessary information that would help to be under the cover of safety and security. The network will cover the peak at 5,895 meters by the end of the year. Cruising the snow-clad mountain is fraught with risks since the snowy pathways can be treacherous.
In the past, it was a bit dangerous for visitors and porters to operate without the internet. The mountain is located in northeastern Tanzania, near the border with Kenya. It is a popular destination for tourists and mountaineers, with about 35,000 climbing it every year.
Celebrated by Ernest Hemingway in his short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” written in 1938, the place, where he tried to know himself and his failings, has a huge tourist potential. The Sylvain settings of the mountain would have given fodder to his creative mind on how to distance himself from institutions that corrupted the human mind and motivated him to craft his pathway of hedonism and sentimental humanism. The area is now classified as a National Park and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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