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Google Brings Street View to Mount Everest Region
- tim333 12y agoCool. It's a nice trek if anyone like the idea. I wonder if they'll try lugging the camera towards the summit next.
- itsbits 12y agowaiting for whole trekking path...it would be great..
- skizm 12y agoWho gets assigned to do this? Where do I apply?
- jonlucc 12y agoI've heard (with no evidence) that it is usually someone on the team who wants to go somewhere, and they get approval by taking the cameras with them. I'm sure that's an oversimplification, but perhaps there is some truth to it.
- bentcorner 12y agoOne of these days we'll see a drone with a street-view cam on the moon, or even Mars. That would be awesome.
- ziikutv 12y agoVery interesting to see they simply used a tripod for this!
- bentcorner 12y agoIsn't that how they normally do the non-car street view stuff? Basically stick the street-view camera onto a tripod?
- oostevo 12y agoThere's also a heavily modified backpack that carries a StreetView camera. https://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/streetview/trekker/ https://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/streetview/trekke...
- digitalneal 12y agoNow we get a full panoramic view of how much trash all these rich day hikers have left up there.
- hencq 12y agoActually, my understanding is that Everest base camp is pretty clean, since they started requiring climbers to bring back trash in the 90s. I think it's mainly the higher up camps that have big garbage (and human waste) problems.