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???
that's not garbage... it's tents.
Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
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#82Looks 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???
Those are tents, not a line of garbage.
Since not everyone going up the mountain comes back down the mountain and there aren't clean up crews, tents can become garbage.
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#83Looks 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???
anyone counted the portable toilet cabins in the base camp(s) - stopped with 58
how do they get those up and down?
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#84Need banana for scale.
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#85In case anyone`s wondering, this is where the riders are: http://i.imgur.com/dTUJA.jpg
The lowest I could find (outside of basecamp) were here: http://i.imgur.com/U6GaL.jpg
Did anyone find climbers lower in the icefall?
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#86Nice, it works neat on my retina display, :D
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#87I saw the /gigapans/ in the URL and googled for it, thinking it must be a super intelligent panoramic "image sticher"+"image viewer" written in flash - but found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigapan
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#88From this point it doesn't look so high. But when you start zooming, some parts seems like they're few miles and other, endless.
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#89So 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.
I always thought about doing Everest if I could ever afford it. You know, one those idle "I'll do that someday thoughts" we all have.
Once I hit the "I could afford this" point I started researching Everest...read Into Thin Air, Dark Summit, No Shortcuts to the Top, etc., watched every documentary I could get my hands on, even talked with one of the climbers featured on the Discovery series that featured Russel Brice's company.
I've concluded that I'm not interested. I'm not interested in standing in line at the Second Step for hours while my body consumes itself and I burn through the scant amount of oxygen I have. I'm not interested in the very real risk that I may arrive back at Camp IV after a summit attempt to find my O2 and supplies stolen. I'm not interested in seeing the corpses, oxygen bottles, tents, and other detritus cluttering up the mountain.
I'm not condemning those who chose to go or those who help them get there, but I'm out: human behavior has made the idea of summiting Everest unappealing.
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#90Looks 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???
There is a option on the controls at the bottom (2nd button from right - 4 arrows, called change control mode) to 'fix' the mouse navigation direction.