For more photos of the mountain and others, the photographers' site: http://www.glacierworks.org/the-glaciers/
Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
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#122Looks like there's a few on the icefall. Follow the line of garbage, then up and across the fall. The only hard part is dealing with the inverted mouse movement on the interface. Why would they do that???
Actually the controls are "non-inverted", pull down to look down. Inverted is when you pull down to look up. Non-inverted is now very popular. Most first person shooter games that ship today have non-inverted as the default. I generally find people about my age and older (30 somethings) prefer inverted, but younger people vastly prefer non-inverted.
I believe I mainly have things like flight simulators with inverted controls. But it kinda makes sense there too, since in a plane you pull back (= down) on the stick to go up.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I came to post that- about the mouse movement. It's absolutely driving me nuts. Makes no sense.
That mouse panning convention has existed for at least 15 years in most web browsers. Click the middle mouse button to activate it in any web browser.
Not on firefox-17.0.1-1.fc17.x86_64.
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#124Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
#125Is this a climber or just a shadow? http://cl.ly/image/3m3K3x0n3k1U
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Got it. The mountain in the background is the one you are talking about There's also a big camp right at the bottom of the picture on the soil next to the glacier. There are at least two dozen tents there.
Closer to 50 dozen, there are tents all around the bottom of the picture where the glacier thins out. I never realized how many people are actually climbing that mountain in any given season. How did anyone ever figure out how to climb that thing before there were satellites or planes? I don't even see how they are getting from the base camp up past the broken up glacier area.
There are really an absurd number of people "climbing" it - literally, my sexagenarian neighbour told me that "some of the girls from my tennis club are doing it". It really nullifies the whole mystique of Everest of any meaning whatsoever, and is having a terrible effect on the natural beauty of the terrain.
(I'm not some mountaineering snob - I tire climbing hills for a decent toboggan run)
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#127At first look the mountain looked so small. Then i found some humans, the size of ants, and it was all put into perspective. Wow.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Closer to 50 dozen, there are tents all around the bottom of the picture where the glacier thins out. I never realized how many people are actually climbing that mountain in any given season. How did anyone ever figure out how to climb that thing before there were satellites or planes? I don't even see how they are getting from the base camp up past the broken up glacier area.
There are really an absurd number of people "climbing" it - literally, my sexagenarian neighbour told me that "some of the girls from my tennis club are doing it". It really nullifies the whole mystique of Everest of any meaning whatsoever, and is having a terrible effect on the natural beauty of the terrain. (I'm not some mountaineering snob - I tire climbing hills for a decent toboggan run)
What is the point of 'natural beauty' if there's no-one to appreciate it? There's all sorts of reasons to preserve wilderness, but 'keeping it looking pretty' as a reason to prevent travellers is not one of them.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't find it because I couldn't comprehend the sheer size. I came to the the realization that HUMANS ARE TINY, no really, we're insignificant. Thanks for the pointers, never would have found them.
The best way for you, as a mere mortal, and not some semi-suicidal mountaineer to experience big mountains is to take the bus from Santiago,Chile to Mendoza, Argentina. The trip through the Andes is really awesome. Sometimes you'll see a mountain and have no idea how big it is and then at the very bottom you can just barely make out some ant size cows grazing. Looking down at the bottom of some of the switchbacks on…
You seemed to know that I'm from south america, creepy ;) (I'm from Uruguay). I'm going to be living in Austria for the next 6 months so I will have no shortage of mountains there!
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are really an absurd number of people "climbing" it - literally, my sexagenarian neighbour told me that "some of the girls from my tennis club are doing it". It really nullifies the whole mystique of Everest of any meaning whatsoever, and is having a terrible effect on the natural beauty of the terrain. (I'm not some mountaineering snob - I tire climbing hills for a decent toboggan run)
What is the point of 'natural beauty' if there's no-one to appreciate it? There's all sorts of reasons to preserve wilderness, but 'keeping it looking pretty' as a reason to prevent travellers is not one of them.
Not sure if you fully realize the scope with which it's turning into a sort of Disneyland - people are climbing it in an endless convoy. I find it quite shocking. If you do, then I guess we just fundamentally disagree.