Sneak is an adventurous sort. Sometimes he buys a scratchcard, sometimes he mixes and matches his socks, sometimes he only buys a single when he's going on a return journey, but he must admit he's been out-manned today by the improbably named Kenton Cool.

Cool has, for the ninth time and aged just 37, just finished an ascent on Everest and did it to prove you can get a 3G signal on top of the highest mountain in the world.

There are areas of deepest darkest London where Mr Cool could try to find a 3G signal and have less success.

It seems as if he may have been inspired, perhaps spiritually, perhaps financially, to get his arse up the mountain thanks to Samsung, who provided him with a brand new Galaxy S II to get his 3G signal. Which was nice of them, wasn't it?

"Everest summit no 9! 1st tweet from the top of the world thanks to a weak 3G signal & the awesome Samsung Galaxy S2 handset!" he tweeted, although he didn't turn location on, so we can't know for sure if it was sent from the summit exactly.

It's a pretty light phone, so at least it didn't add much extra weight to his baggage on the way up, and no doubt you'll see the branding soon enough: "The Samsung Galaxy S II - able to find 3G on Everest!", or something equally obvious.

Still, if Cool's exploits prove one thing it's, as he said when talking to the BBC, that the world is getting smaller and that geographical impediments to phone networks are being overcome every day (and they don't come much bigger than Everest).

Now, all that's left to do is sort out coverage in my flat.

06 May 2011