Mount Everest has 'no Wi-Fi' and 'too much snow'

Mount Everest has only managed a two-and-a-half-star rating on Google Maps due to issues like faulty elevators.

In the tradition of the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt reviewing craze resulting in over 20,000 very tongue-in-cheek user reviews on it's Amazon product page, Neatorama discovered the denizens of the Internet (mostly from reddit.com) have begun submitting user reviews on Google Maps for Mount Everest.

And not just one or two ... 64 helpful typists have submitted their thoughts on the world's highest mountain.  

Here are a few of the most snarky:

"No Wi Fi: Contrary to popular belief there is actually NO Wi Fi availability here at all. None. The coffee, however, and the friendly attitude of the locals more than makes up for this and I would happily visit again. But I can't give it 5 stars, however good the 'view' is.‎"

"Essentials: My mate said he climbed it with runners but I would suggest hiking boots as the Khumbu ice-fall can get slippery at times...you don't want to roll an ankle. You should also buy enough smokes and red bull for the return trip as there are no shops along the way.‎"

"Skip this one: The views are great... IF YOU LOVE LOOKING AT SNOW :( Skip this one and go to Hawaii where you can ride a bike back down the mountain!‎"

"Good, if not for the Yeti: The view was awesome, the trek was great, but wasn't able to enjoy it all because was to sleepy. The Yeti was very rude, just wouldn't stop partying at night. I suggest a good noise canceling headphones.‎"

"Bring a backup credit card: They don't take Discover up there. Bring another card or some animal skins as trade. All rental vehicles have four legs.‎"

"Lame: No valet service and the Sherpas barely spoke any English.‎"

For the rest, go to the user review page on Google Maps for Mount Everest.

With so many reviews for Mount Everest in just a couple days, we wonder how long it will continue. The Internet gets bored notoriously quickly. Next target of sarcastic opportunity ... how about the Atlantic Ocean?

 

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3D Street Art by Edgar Mueller

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Different kind of mobile...

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UGG Australia: Behind the Brand - WSJ. Magazine - WSJ

Last year, UGG Australia sold nearly $712 million of sheepskin footwear—more than Sam Adams sold beer ($415.1 million), Smith & Wesson sold guns ($334.9 million), the New York Yankees sold baseball ($375 million) and Marie Callender’s sold apple pie ($536 million). Extraordinary success when you consider that until recently in Australia, the land of their origins, seasonal sheepskin boots had always been an item of scorn, with no self-respecting wearer wishing to be caught outside the home sporting the footwear first fashioned by shearers to keep their toes from turning blue in the shearing sheds. But reviled or revered, these days you would be hard-pressed to find anyone, anywhere, who hadn’t heard of—or worn—this PT Cruiser of footwear.

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FT.com / Arts / Visual Arts - Slideshow: Gauguin at the Tate Modern

Tate Modern’s new exhibition calls Gauguin “maker of myth”. What he was after was visionary content, something psychically deeper than impressionism’s flickering sensations. He was not the first to look for it in versions of the exotic – French artists from Delacroix in Algiers to Rousseau at the Jardin des Plantes preceded him. But he was exceptional in seeking in the South Seas to reinvent his way of life so that man and art became fused: a living legend – or a canny publicity job.

Gauguin’s real significance, as this exhibition shows, was not as a formal innovator but, in a Europe sick of its cultural limitations, as the force unleashing the primitivism that made modern art possible.

Read the full text of Jackie Wullschlager’s Gauguin review

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Nave Nave Mahana (Delightful Days), 1896

Where Are You Going?, 1892

Nevermore O Tahiti, 1897

Oviri, 1895

The Yellow Christ, 1889

Portrait of the Artist with Idol, c.1893

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