Thread: Everest Gigapan

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Gigapans/EB...8bit_FLAT.html

Very very cool

Wow, very very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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Indeed.

If you zoom in all the way, follow the glacier upstream, just behind the mountain to your left, you'll see a long string of climbers like ants.

Bloody breathtaking this.

Originally Posted by Boid

If you zoom in all the way, follow the glacier upstream, just behind the mountain to your left, you'll see a long string of climbers like ants.

Bloody breathtaking this.

You can also see tents just to the right of that line of climbers. There also appears to be a single climber on the saddle just to the left of Everest.

I wish I had this when I read Into The Silence. Would love to see climbing route lines overlay the gigapan.

Originally Posted by Boid

If you zoom in all the way, follow the glacier upstream, just behind the mountain to your left, you'll see a long string of climbers like ants.

omFg...... I hadn't even thought to zoom in. That really gives the mountains some scale that was missing. They're even smaller than ants......like fleas!

Found this link detailing how the climb works, fascinating read. I have a few pals who have made it to base camp (those are the hundreds of tents strewed at the bottom of the glacier). I should call them and congratulate them after having seen this image.

HowStuffWorks "How Climbing Mount Everest Works"

omg

Indeed, cool link.

well, it's not Everest, but this photograph of one of the world's largest trees also amazes......
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