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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.
Would be better if it had meters and showing where people slept, and how many days you have to stay in each camp etc.
Here's an example acclimatization schedule from one expedition company: http://www.mounteverest.net/expguide/accli.htm The schedule doesn't mention camp 4 because you ideally only stay there the night before a summit attempt.
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…
The problem with ALL of these images, virtual 3d tours, interactive maps - it just does NOT show scale! What does a person look like in these images? I have never been there, but I have no sense of scale of these images. Can a person be seen from these?
(Of course, there are no trees because this is far, far above treeline)
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…
Their documentary about the tragedy "Storm Over Everest" is fantastic. Unfortunately, it can't be watched for free online any more.
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…
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Same here. I don't see why privacy invading JS bloat from facebook, twitter, google analytics or scorecardresearch should be critical for its operation.
I contract for a media company that handles (and cleanses) PII ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform... ). We take this information very seriously. We could give a shit about who you are, we just want you to become the same anonymous number for tracking reasons. Why is this such a big deal? AT WORST you'd get ads actually targeted to your interests instead of bullshit ads you can't click thro…
Maybe I don't want to become an anonymous number for tracking reasons.
Anyway, maybe your particular company is all nice and responsible, but if so you're hardly representative.
I never understood why, when a rich white dude pays tens of thousands of dollars for a bunch of other dudes to scout a path, clear out obstacles, set up camps and caches, and carefully escort him up a mountain, it's the rich white dude who gets the credit and glory. I mean, it's still a pretty impressive achievement, but it's not half so impressive as the guys who do it day in, day out for a simple living.
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…
I'd like to recommmend Touching the Void, an amazing mountaineering/survival story. Was also made into a movie that the author of the book seems to have favorable opinion of.