That is way cool.
You can even see the climbers on the Ice Fall.
Amazing image. There are thousands of tents visible.
Just read a book "Into thin Air" about a 1996 expedition. Very Good.
It is amazing how fast one can die on that mountain.
thanks..
always have been an armchair explorer/reader Everest climber. I have read a lot and collected book and maps.
Like Joe says, you can see the climbers heading to the upper base camp and also see the upper base camp.
And like Larry posted , you can see lower base camp circus.
When I panned up along the ridge to Hillary’s Step, I think I had a little vertigo and needed a bottle of O2. 😐
If you like reading, try some of Ed Viesturs books. First American to climb the Top 8 summits without oxygen bottles.
I haven't found the Step or Camp yet.... but it'll be fun looking!!
Dying on any 8000 meter peak is easy. You are dying once you hit 8000 meters, period.
My idol in my younger (thinner) climbing days.
Warning: bad words 😉
Cool Hand Luke with an ice axe...
EH?
What??
Amazing photo. You can go to this web site or take a look at the youtube animation below (works best in full screen mode)to get a better understanding of the South Col route up Everest (in the gigapixel photo you can clearly see Camp 3 on the face of Lhotse… pretty cool)
[flash width=420 height=315] http://www.youtube.com/v/diQtFPbBFCw?version=3&hl=en_US [/flash]
James – I’ll see your Idol and raise you Don Whillans, the bad boy hero of Brit climbers (now dead of course from rock and roll style causes, not Mt. climber rolling rock related causes).
One of the best Whillans stories:
During the 1972 European Everest Expedition the expedition had been plagued with several personality conflicts and the withdrawal of many climbers. While in camp, some of the other climbers overheard news that England had lost a soccer game to Germany. "It seems we have beaten you at your national sport", said German climber Felix Kuen. After a slight pause Whillans replied, "Aye, and we've beaten you at yours...twice."
Photo of Chris Bonnington (L) and Don Whillans on their way from England to Climb the Eiger:
:-O Blew my mind away! When I opened it, it looked
kinda tame because you can't gauge the perspective
right off. When I zoomed in a little, I thought
what are those little yellow things (can they be
shotgun shell casings? Nah, can't be. Then, I thought
prayer beads? (if I was from Tibet and climbing
Mt. Everest I'd consider it. :snarky: ) Then, I zoomed
in some more and it completely blew me away when
I realized those were tents! :snarky:
New and improved Everest (additional photo locations)
They've now added squares you can click on the original photo to go to those locations and pan around in the camp, up in the icefall, etc.
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/20/167621313/a-billion-pixel-tour-of-mount-everest
New and improved Everest (additional photo locations)
Very cool.
I found a different link to the same thing, but which seems quite a bit faster than the NPR site:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/Gigapixel_Trees/Pumori_Spring2012_EBC_Full/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT.html
New and improved Everest (additional photo locations)
Oh yeah, much better. Your link gives the full screen view. Nice
Don't forget the mountain's namesake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest
"The Great Arc" by John Keay is well worth reading. Everest (he pronounced it Eve-rest) and others ran several thousand miles of triangulation net through rough and uncivilized terrain in India, from 1802 to about 1876. As an incidental they triangulated the elevations of several dozen Himalayan peaks, including the one later named for Everest, whose elevation was calculated about 1852. It'll be interesting to compare the Everest team's elevation of 29,002 to GPS. Of course the geoid will be different, and the ellipsoid too.
