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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?)

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Post by thesis »

arscan wrote: post #51

So this is a little off-topic, but I read an article the other week that i haven't been able to shake about the number of people that have died on Everest and whose bodies have never been retrieved (warning, morbid and slightly graphic): http://sometimes-interesting.com/2011/06/29/over-200-dead-bo... Just a reminder that those little dots are people who are taking a very real risk by attempting to reach the summit. I…

There are far deadlier mountains out there than Everest. I think the current death rate is around 5%. Annapurna has killed about 35% of the climbers that attempted.

It has gotten to the point where there are basically proven (about as much as you can for something so dangerous) methods of getting to the top.

"Into Thin Air" is a great book on the journey (the very bad , and the good) to the top.

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

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Post by Aardwolf »

PhrosTT wrote: post #41
jasonkester wrote: post #20

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???

For those looking: 1. Of the 3 mountains, look at the peak of the center one (Lhotse). 2. Below that, the right half is big chunky snow, and the left half is smooth, icey looking snow. 3. Look at the line where the smooth left half meets the chunky right half. - Halfway up that you can find CAMP 3. [You'll see little ant people marching up that centerline - follow them to their tents.] Also once you see CAMP 3, you a…

Thanks for this explanation, I wouldn't have seen that part otherwise. At first I wasn't sure which peak you meant exactly, but once I picked the right one I found it.

None of those little ant people are really climbing though.

Also, the resolution should have been much more than a gigapixel to make that part more interesting :)

I immediately saw the HUGE tent camp in the front though.

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

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Post by eipi »

PhrosTT wrote: post #41
jasonkester wrote: post #20

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???

For those looking: 1. Of the 3 mountains, look at the peak of the center one (Lhotse). 2. Below that, the right half is big chunky snow, and the left half is smooth, icey looking snow. 3. Look at the line where the smooth left half meets the chunky right half. - Halfway up that you can find CAMP 3. [You'll see little ant people marching up that centerline - follow them to their tents.] Also once you see CAMP 3, you a…

Wow!

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

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Post by robbyking »

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. :(

Just refresh the page so the referrer is the same domain.

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Post by darkstalker »

skandl wrote: post #30

Wow this is captivating, but panning with the mouse on a desktop is so frustrating, the image movement is opposite what I expect! (browsing on a desktop, Windows/Chrome)

I hate this panning mode in the "opposite direction" and with velocity. I prefer to drag the image.

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

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Post by mikegirouard »

This is simply breathtaking. I'm sure the app behind this is assembling tiles together, but does there exist a full-resolution image of this in a single piece?

I've tried to use my network inspector to figure out how to access the individual tiles, but no luck.

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

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Post by Zimahl »

hiddenfeatures wrote: post #56
PhrosTT wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those looking: 1. Of the 3 mountains, look at the peak of the center one (Lhotse). 2. Below that, the right half is big chunky snow, and the left half is smooth, icey looking snow. 3. Look at the line where the smooth left half meets the chunky right half. - Halfway up that you can find CAMP 3. [You'll see little ant people marching up that centerline - follow them to their tents.] Also once you see CAMP 3, you a…

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.

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