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Re:Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find th... by Retric on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @03:47PM (#4944724)
You 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.
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Re:Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find th... by RockyMcNuts on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @06:00PM (#4945306)
Nearest 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.
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