Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?) • Hacker News Board

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by arethuza » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:07 PM UTC

albinoloverats wrote: post #4

Yes, I did - but by pure luck :p

If you start at Base Camp and follow the route up you can see quite a few - I've spotted around 30.

Difficult to believe how big Base Camp is!

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by matthodan » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

krschultz wrote: post #9

I'm amazed not by the mountain - but by the size of the camp in the valley. I knew a lot of people climbed Mt Everest, but that't practically a small city.

I felt the same way. There must be so much garbage on that mountain.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by neuspadrin » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

crikli wrote: post #10

pmoehring wrote: post #7

When you follow http://www.alanarnette.com/downloads/everestsouthroutemap.jp... this picture you can see the route. I had a hard time seeing any of the climbers until I knew where to look. Point C3 is the last place you can actually see humans (& tents), C4 is already more of a guess.

Forbidden link. :(

Go to the main website: http://www.alanarnette.com/ then copy url for image in: http://www.alanarnette.com/downloads/everestsouthroutemap.jp...

Simple hot linking restrictions.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by matthodan » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

Here is a Gizmodo article on the photo for those wanting the back story: http://gizmodo.com/5969706/a-stunning-two-billion-pixel-phot...

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by arscan » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

I was able to follow the line of people / tents about halfway up using this as a guide:

http://www.abc-of-mountaineering.com/images/content-images/a...

Then lost them. Amazing photo!

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by jewel » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

rcamera wrote: post #5

Nice photograph and interface. How was the photograph actually composed? Found them... Spoiler: http://imgur.com/zpyOg

Those look like tents. I think these are the climbers: http://thesteve.org/up/climbers.jpg

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by starpilot » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

krschultz wrote: post #9

I'm amazed not by the mountain - but by the size of the camp in the valley. I knew a lot of people climbed Mt Everest, but that't practically a small city.

Everest Base Camp. Lots of people just trek up to EBC and head back, it is non-technical and can be done by most people in decent shape.

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by aakarpost » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

Could not find the climbers. But this 2B pixel photo is just awesome. :)

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by johnsocs » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:12 PM UTC

rcamera wrote: post #5

Nice photograph and interface. How was the photograph actually composed? Found them... Spoiler: http://imgur.com/zpyOg

A GigaPan type device.. http://www.gigapan.com/

Re: Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

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Post by jasonkester » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

Looks 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???