Everest climbers to get GPS device to prove summit claims

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Nepal's tourism department says some climbers who attempt to climb Mount Everest this year will be strapped with a GPS device. The head of the department says the devices will help locate climbers who are in trouble so rescuers can be sent to them and to determine whether they actually reached the summit. But how helpful will they actually be? Kenton Cool is one of the world's leading high-altitude climbers having climbed Mount Everest twelve times. (Picture: Mountaineer Kenton Cool rounds Geneva Spur on Mount Everest. Credit: Keith Partridge)