Kotaku has an interview with Neal Mueller and Chris Grubb, two Mount Everest climbers who brought their Nintendo DS's along for some entertainment on the slopes.Of all their electronic equipment, the DS withstood the high altitudes the best:
...we had a Dell computer that got fried, a Polytechnic screen that went out… we had three of the four MP3 players go bad….but the Nintendo DS units keep hanging in there…
And it was the Nintendo DS units that suffered the worst of it - they were constantly with us in our tents which were moist and cold… the were right there in our packs so they suffered a lot of wind blasts, they were dropped…
And the Sherpas would beat the (heck) out of them - they’d play with them in the kitchen where curry would get split on them, all these incredibly hot spices… and they kept on performing…
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