Well if you were thinking about climbing climbing the highest mountain in the world, you'd take your DS with you too, right?

Neal Mueller and Chris Grubb are two hardcore gamers. So when the pair decided to climb Mt. Everest, they decided to bring their DS's along.

Neal made it to the top on June 2, describing the experience as "beautiful� I was up at 29,000 feet and so the clouds were below me� and with it being such a perfectly sunny day, you really could almost see forever�"

When asked how the Nintendo DS withstood the high altitudes, he replied that although he had loads of electronic equipment, "the Nintendo DS held up the best of any of it", surviving a Dell computer, a polytechnic screen and three or four MP3 players which couldn't cope with the conditions.

Plus, he explained, it was the DS units that suffered the worst of it as well, constantly with the pair of climbers in their tents which were moist and cold. "They were right there in our packs so they suffered a lot of wind blasts, they were dropped, and the Sherpas would beat the heck out of them - they'd play with them in the kitchen where curry would get split on them, all these incredibly hot spices� and they kept on performing�"

It'd be an interesting test to see the PSP battery lasted even half way to the top!