The founder of the company I work for (Lot18) actually climbed Everest - so after sending him the link to this, he dropped by and explained everything we were looking at - and outlining the paths and various dangers associated with the climb. It's quite an amazing story - and I found some slides related to his climb from 2009: http://www.slideshare.net/snooth/everest-2003-north-face-res...
Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
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Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
#152Can you find the dead climber? That's the real question. I found one already.
Shouldn't be that hard, there are loads of the poor buggers. Just look around the climbing routes, they don't (can't) move most of the bodies AFAIK.
Bit morbid though.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're probably right about those little ant people. Climbing Mount Everest is more dangerous than attempting suicide!
Not quite but closer than I would have suspected: Suicide attempt fatality rate: 9% Everest attempt fatality rate: 2% Sources: Climber fatality from attempts through 2006: http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/EverestAgeFat.shtml Suicide estimate from NIH: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-us-statistics-and-prevention/index.shtml
Some more stats I put together awhile ago:
Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not quite but closer than I would have suspected: Suicide attempt fatality rate: 9% Everest attempt fatality rate: 2% Sources: Climber fatality from attempts through 2006: http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/EverestAgeFat.shtml Suicide estimate from NIH: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-us-statistics-and-prevention/index.shtml
Some more stats I put together awhile ago: http://andrewwooster.com/everest.html
This is very good visualization. It brings out the fact that number of summits have exponentially increased by number of death only linearly and with very slight slop. This means w have gotten exponentially better at summiting over time.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anyone who is still looking: http://f.cl.ly/items/3w2j2h0a1a3h0M1K0i3l/ppl.jpg (you can only see the people at max zoom-level, they are really tiny)
I've found this lonely guy http://cl.ly/image/221I0N1x1c1Y
I found a really lonely guy.. http://i.imgur.com/7ohkL.png
Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're probably right about those little ant people. Climbing Mount Everest is more dangerous than attempting suicide!
Not quite but closer than I would have suspected: Suicide attempt fatality rate: 9% Everest attempt fatality rate: 2% Sources: Climber fatality from attempts through 2006: http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/EverestAgeFat.shtml Suicide estimate from NIH: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-us-statistics-and-prevention/index.shtml
And I suspect that suicide fatality rate isn't 100% correct either. It's hard to really tell, if someone really failed trying to commit suicide, or if they just 'attempted' to get more attention.
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#157Is this done with Autopano (http://www.kolor.com/ http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html)?
Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
#158Great picture! We are also a company based in Nepal where this picture is taken from. Our company name is after another peak - Manaslu, which is a 8th highest peak in the world. We do Ruby on Rails web development. http://www.manaslutech.com
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#159Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. And no, I couldn't find the climbers.
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#160The GlacierWorks team (in cooperation with URC Ventures) also made a photo-realistic 3D model of the Himalayas using images that were captured using a helicopter.
The preview video looks promising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEs3euTgj8s
Background info: http://urcventures.com/whats-new/