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Mt Everest in 3D: Everest Avalanche Tragedy

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Re: Mt Everest in 3D: Everest Avalanche Tragedy

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davidjohnstone wrote: post #8

This is the thing that I was wishing existed a couple of months ago when I read "Into Thin Air". It's a fantastic read about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster where eight climbers died, but I often had difficulty visualising what was going on. (There's also a film, Everest, due out next year.) To be better convey what it's like to climb Everest, I think this visualisation would be improved if it had more annotations ab…

Into Thin Air is a really intersting book, i remember myself looking at maps of Mt Everest whilst reading it. It got me interested in the Mt Everest spectacle. I just finished reading Dark Summit which, imo, was not as interesting but it does show, in a better way than ITA, how in these extreme conditions persons struggle a lot with the simplest tasks and becomes selfish and only focusing on one thing: summit. No matter if they wont make it down.

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I know it is a sign of the amazing times we live in, but that managed to be less than I expected. It's not at a 3D model, but 'just' a panorama.

And yes, the times are amazing. Look at http://www.everest3d.de/en/everest-in-3d/everest-3d-app.html. It looks like somebody thinks he can make money by selling an app that allows those on Everest to browse a 3D model of the mountain (what else is the GPS option for?)

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Post by chaz »

contingencies wrote: post #10
zzleeper wrote: post #4

Never loaded..

Same here. I don't see why privacy invading JS bloat from facebook, twitter, google analytics or scorecardresearch should be critical for its operation.

"Critical?" No. But it was built by a publicly traded media company, so they're probably interested in promoting it and making money with it.

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davidjohnstone wrote: post #8

This is the thing that I was wishing existed a couple of months ago when I read "Into Thin Air". It's a fantastic read about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster where eight climbers died, but I often had difficulty visualising what was going on. (There's also a film, Everest, due out next year.) To be better convey what it's like to climb Everest, I think this visualisation would be improved if it had more annotations ab…

If you haven't seen it, the MacGillivray Freeman IMAX film "Everest" was shot contemporaneously with the tragedy and is excellent as such made-to-be-shown-in-Science-Centers documentaries go.
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