Follow How One Man Brought Internet to a Remote Region of Nepal
Because he got tired of hiking two days to the nearest city to check his email.
If you dread the thought of checking your work email in the morning, bear in mind the tale of Nepalese education pioneer and entrepreneur Mahabir Pun, who had to hike from his home in the village of Nangi, in Nepal’s Annapurna region, to the country’s second-biggest city of Pokhara just to check his email. After doing this for six years, Pun finally became fed up of the toil, which set off a series of events that has led to a thriving wireless network that connects 60,000 people to the world — a feat that has been justified by a subsequent rise in the region’s health, education and wealth standards. Follow Pun in this eight-minute documentary by Austrian director Clemens Purner as he recounts how he achieved this remarkable project, and never take your Internet connection for granted ever again.
