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On a 73-day trip from the base of Mt. Everest, up to its summit, and back down again, Chris Grubb and Neal Mueller made history by making the #NintendoDS the first video game system to be played atop Earth's tallest mountain above sea level.

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According to their July 2005 interview with Gamespy, the pair played Madden NFL 2005, Super Mario 64 DS, and Metroid Prime Hunters - First Hunt as their entertainment. Although some of their equipment had faults with the mountain environment, the DS held firm throughout. In fact, they had 10 units!

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Learn more from the full interview, which is still available to read in full on the old Gamespy website. Also, this post (lifted from our retired Twitter account) is a mere three days off from the interview's original post date of July 8th (2005), 21 years ago to the day!