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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
by PhrosTT 14y ago
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 actually see tracks in the snow. There's a manmade line going diagonally up/left across the center mountain, up the rock face, and then continues up/left to the little snow valley where Everest hits Lhotse along the horizon line. I suppose somewhere around there is CAMP 4.
- monsterix 14y agoWow! Roughly 50 odd people like ants visible up to halfway there and many below near the foot of the central peak.
- Trufa 14y agoI couldn't find it because I couldn't comprehend the sheer size. I came to the the realization that HUMANS ARE TINY, no really, we're insignificant. Thanks for the pointers, never would have found them.
- narrator 14y agoThe best way for you, as a mere mortal, and not some semi-suicidal mountaineer to experience big mountains is to take the bus from Santiago,Chile to Mendoza, Argentina. The trip through the Andes is really awesome. Sometimes you'll see a mountain and have no idea how big it is and then at the very bottom you can just barely make out some ant size cows grazing. Looking down at the bottom of some of the switchbacks on that route is like looking out an airplane window.
- Trufa 14y agoYou seemed to know that I'm from south america, creepy ;) (I'm from Uruguay). I'm going to be living in Austria for the next 6 months so I will have no shortage of mountains there!
- swah 14y agoI'm a brazilian and have never been in Chile or Argentina. Its time. (We do travel 4 hours by car to Uruguay to buy wine/champagne liquor for a fraction of the prices here though.)
- hiddenfeatures 14y agoGot 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.
- Zimahl 14y agoCloser 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.
- 001sky 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khumbu_Icefall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khumbu_Icefall They walk up that thing, its called Khumbu icefall. Basically the valley glacier spilling out in slow motion. Its incredibly dangerous (as you probably surmise), even though its at the bottom. Since the ice is all cracked up, many people fall into the cracks. Believe the local sherpas do most of the work each year to find a safe route through that mess.
- mark_h 14y agoEdmund Hillary wrote "High Adventure" about a year after his climb, and a it's a great description of just how things were done in those days! It's a very easy read too, in a boys-own-adventure style. Speaking of aerial photos though, Over The Himalaya (http://www.amazon.com/Over-Himalaya-Koichiro-Ohmori/dp/0938567373 http://www.amazon.com/Over-Himalaya-Koichiro-Ohmori/dp/09385...) has some staggering photos from the region if you like that sort of thing. Out of print, but worth tracking down.
- jgw 14y agoThere are really an absurd number of people "climbing" it - literally, my sexagenarian neighbour told me that "some of the girls from my tennis club are doing it". It really nullifies the whole mystique of Everest of any meaning whatsoever, and is having a terrible effect on the natural beauty of the terrain. (I'm not some mountaineering snob - I tire climbing hills for a decent toboggan run)
- Aardwolf 14y agoThanks 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.
- btilly 14y agoYou're probably right about those little ant people. Climbing Mount Everest is more dangerous than attempting suicide!
- absherwin 14y agoNot quite but closer than I would have suspected: Suicide attempt fatality rate: 9% Everest attempt fatality rate: 2% Sources: Climber fatality from attempts through 2006: http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/EverestAgeFat.shtml Suicide estimate from NIH: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-us-statistics-and-prevention/index.shtml
- gokhan 14y agoActually, Everest is considered as on the easier side for an eight-thousander [1]. Annapurna got %38 (2007 figures) [2] and K2 got %25 [3]. For some interesting discussion on Everest fatalities, try this one [4]. "No shortcuts to the top" by Ed Viesturs and the well known "Into thin air" by Jon Krakauer are two good books on the subject, if you want to read more. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2 {4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978295 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978295
- JohnFromBuffalo 14y agoYup, I've read that. The account by the reporter from Outdoors (?) was extremely graphic in detail (but disputed by others in the party). Sad all around, but through those deaths came better regulation which has led to a 1:7 ration of attempts/deaths vs. 1:4 in previous years.
- eipi 14y agoWow!
- moe 14y agoFor anyone who is still looking: http://f.cl.ly/items/3w2j2h0a1a3h0M1K0i3l/ppl.jpg http://f.cl.ly/items/3w2j2h0a1a3h0M1K0i3l/ppl.jpg (you can only see the people at max zoom-level, they are really tiny)
- Retric 14y agoYou can also see a small tent city at the base of the on the grey part net to the ice flow at the bottom left of the. And some buildings on the right side of the image. But oddly no real roads, so I guess it's all air lifted in, or mule trains.
- RockyMcNuts 14y agoNearest road to Kathmandu was (for me, in 2001) a 14-day walk. The airport at Lukla is about 7 days. Everything comes in by porter or by yak train. It's nearly 18,000 feet altitude. The mountain goes straight up another 2 miles vertical. This panorama is fantastic, but realize it's on extreme wide angle, almost fish-eye. The mountain seems to take up the whole sky.
- teufelabgott 14y agoI've found this lonely guy http://cl.ly/image/221I0N1x1c1Y http://cl.ly/image/221I0N1x1c1Y
- fictorial 14y agoI don't know but I think that might be two people. That, or he's hugging a small bear. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/1d7328b2-960d-4728-b9af-5ec4ff1d90b1/1fe799ee8ba3d6b29dc1d859eb8c08b0 https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/1d7328b2-960d-4728-b9af...
- biesnecker 14y agoYeti!
- yRetsyM 14y ago
- strongriley 14y agoWOW! Definitely stared right at camp 3 for a while unable to find them. They're TINY!
- exDM69 14y agoI can see the guys up there with a few tents, and a lot of tents below the rough patch of ice. But I can't see anyone in between or above the few tents between the peaks. Does anyone know why? Is this photo taken early in the day so there there's no-one going for the summit yet? Or does the route to the summit go somewhere where the camera can't see?