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Not a lot of us are going to have the luck, or the inclination to drag ourselves up the side of Mount Everest, but with this incredible gigapixel image, you can feel like you’re really there, kind of. That’s some serious zoomage.
The glorious image is a composite of 400 images by David Breashers, shot from above base camp with a 300mm lens. Check out the tiny orange dots — those are actually tents. And yep, you can even pick out climbers on the side of the mountain.
Breashers made it to highlight climate change, and the impact on the ice flows of Everest, but for the rest of us, it’s amazing just to view. Waste at least 5 minutes of your dull Thursday afternoon here. [Glacier Works via Guardian]
Wow!!
OK, this was in various newspapers (& online) yesterday so this is old news.
Oh, I’m sorry. There’s always tipsATgizmodo.co.uk you know.
Hardly old news, don’t be a twat
I don’t think that pointing out that something was widely on other websites on Tuesday and in National newspapers on Wednesday is old news qualifies me as a twat. I could be wrong.
The only twat I know on gizmodo is tw@panda
You know what, Bond should had gone there instead of Scotland in Skyfall!
Ha, think it would have taken just a smidgen longer to get there.
Yeh, but on the plus side they could had get away with nuking half of the Everest!
Just slightly up but in the centre …those people look like ants even zoomed al the way in!
I still couldn’t find anyone climbing on the side of the mountain though, only at the camps.