Tuesday 1 September 2009

Question for September 1, 2009 - Nikhil

"A New Zealander who was cooking, provided team members with mousse au chocolat and fresh strawberries flown in from ___ by helicopter. In the evenings they watched films on a flat-screen TV in the cinema tent. The Russians had liters of vodka on hand and a wireless Internet connection for which the leader paid $5,000 a month".
This is from a German journalist, who was shocked at what a soft touch the once-forbidding place had become. What place (be specific)?

9 comments:

Sailesh Ganesh said...

Base Camp of the Everest?

Gaurav Kane said...

Gitmo?

pratYk said...

Once Forbidding place .. hmm .. could be Antartica or Mt. Everest .. Since it says flown in by helicopter, I'd guess the answer is Mt. Everest ...

Rahul said...

Interesting!

I think this is either on the himalayas or in Antarctica. I don't see much to work with here, so I'll make a guess..

Everest base camp (I don't think the peak can sustain so many people and have regular helicopter sorties and wireless internet :P)

Nirav Kanodra said...

Mount Everest

anuj said...

Mt Everest base camp

Madhur said...

Everest Base Camp

SKK said...

Mount Everest...! Himalaya parbat.

The Answer said...

The answer is indeed the Mt. Everest base camp. Congrats to everyone who got it right.