The other day I asked the Tusker Trail folks if there was a way for family and friends to follow the progress of the climb. Turns out that they have a "webcast" for the climb, but than that is to be expected in this digital age. Except that in this case, the way it works is that runners/messengers take SD cards with pictures down from the mountain to the Tusker office where they get uploaded to a custom site. This manual process of "transferring" the pictures from our cameras to the "webcast" will be done every couple of days. I have this image of messengers rushing down with super secret flash cards from high altitudes on the mountain, guarding the flash cards, making sure that they reach the HQ unharmed.
Talk about a manual process and limited bandwidth ! (Oh, and we supply the SD Cards, and so I will be carrying 10 extra cards with me).
If you are interested the "webcast" site is: http://ftp.tusker.com/webcast_hathi.cfm
