New russian helicopter can land on top of Mount Everest, never ages

What's up with the whacky accent? I hear this in demonstration / marketing videos from big industrial companies all the time, and I can't figure out why you'd want someone who speaks so oddly.<p>"We need a professional sounding English narrator. British accent, of course, it's more refined. But not a native speaker... that's too ordinary. We need someone who's faking a British accent. Also, random word emphasis is a plus."

Perhaps an exciting first step to retrieving all of the human remains and the litter that's accumulated on the ascent over the years? Clean up the joint a bit?

Wasn't this done already?<p><a href="http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/everestcopter05272005.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/everestcopter05272005...</a>

No according to the article, it can fly as high as Mount Everest, but that is a lot different than landing on the peak.

Looks like Mi-8 after a facelift.

That's truly amazing because I can't recollect a Helicopter that big making it to 8,800m as they claim. Usually it is very light copters that can do that. Clearly the Indian army will want to get their hands on this as they operate in the highest battlefield on earth: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siachen_Glacier" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siachen_Glacier</a><p>Evacuating troops and dropping supplies there is difficult to put it lightly.