"No mountain too high as Wi-fi scales Himalayas" from South China Morning Post

"It used to take teacher Mahabir Pun more than two days to check his e-mail from his home in the remote Himalayan village of Nagi in western Nepal."


"Today, all Pun has to do is log on to the wireless network he has set up over the past few years, catapulting more than 100 impoverished villages in Nepal into the 21st century.

The technology has transformed lives in some of the most inhospitable places on earth, where there are no roads or hospitals and where most people scratch out a meagre living as subsistence farmers."


"Once again, Pun asked his foreign volunteers to bring what they could to help - customs officials, he reasoned, would be unlikely to suspect Western backpackers of smuggling in contraband communications equipment.

Nagi was the first village to be connected and, by September 2003, five villages in Myagdi district, about 300 kilometres northwest of Kathmandu, were accessing the network."