{"id":30279,"date":"2013-05-21T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=30279"},"modified":"2013-05-21T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:29:55","slug":"htc-one-video-call-mount-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/htc-one-video-call-mount-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC One: world&#8217;s first video call from top of Mount Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, <strong>Daniel Hughes<\/strong> used a <strong>HTC One<\/strong> to make the <strong>world&#8217;s first ever live call from the summit of Mount Everest<\/strong>. \u00a0And \u00a0he did all this while wearing a Red Nose. You can see the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/new.livestream.com\/accounts\/2002567\/events\/1982567\/videos\/19171003\/player?autoPlay=false&amp;height=360&amp;mute=false&amp;width=640\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video call was made into BBC World News on Sunday from an altitude of 29,029 feet above sea level. That&#8217;s almost 5.5 miles or 9 km!\u00a0The temperature on the top of Mount Everest at the time was\u00a0-35\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>British explorer Daniel Hughes is aiming to raise \u00a31 million for Comic Relief. His challenge? Put the first Red Nose on top of Mount Everest. &#8220;Mission <em>partially\u00a0<\/em>accomplished&#8221; we would say. \u00a342,000 have been raised so far. Visit <a title=\"Everest Million\" href=\"http:\/\/www.everestmillion.com\/\">Everest Million<\/a>\u00a0if you&#8217;d like to donate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Journey&#8217; was much more than the Everest climb. It involved climbing the 4,810 metre high Mont Blanc, competing in the Welsh Etape, ice climbing training in Italy and more.<\/p>\n<p>So you thought making a video call from the top of Mount Everest was impressive, well that&#8217;s not everything! Daniel and the team also recorded what they claim to be the <strong>world&#8217;s highest\u00a0Harlem\u00a0shake<\/strong>. You heard right &#8211; watch it now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ab0DvlogOVo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Who is Daniel Hughes?<\/p>\n<p>A 31 one year old British Explorer and commercial airline pilot.<\/p>\n<p>What is Comic Relief?<\/p>\n<p>A large UK based charity whose aim is to eradicate world poverty. All donations to Comedy Relief are spent on charitable projects while operating costs are covered by corporate sponsors or interest earned on donations that have not yet been distributed. <a title=\"Comic Relief - How We Help\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicrelief.com\/how-we-help\">Click here<\/a> to see which projects they are supporting at the moment.<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Daniel Hughes used a HTC One to make the world&#8217;s first ever live call from the summit of Mount Everest. \u00a0And \u00a0he did all this while wearing a Red Nose. You can see the video below: The video call was made into BBC World News on Sunday from an altitude of 29,029 feet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[311],"tags":[7130,7074,7131,7132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30279"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30286,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30279\/revisions\/30286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}