Panoramic view from top of Everest

May 24, 2003 2:02 PM

Panoramic view from top of Everest (requires QuickTime) [via kottke.org]
posted by kirkaracha (15 comments total)

Wow. Beautiful.
posted by Rattmouth at 2:53 PM on May 24, 2003

What Rattmouth said. Thanks for posting this.

As I scanned around and around I had to remind myself that quite a few people have died trying to get to that view.
posted by beth at 2:58 PM on May 24, 2003

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
posted by smcniven at 3:09 PM on May 24, 2003

Beautiful. Another shining beacon in the sea of web pages.
posted by Keyser Soze at 4:26 PM on May 24, 2003

[This is good]
posted by armoured-ant at 4:37 PM on May 24, 2003

Fantastic, thank you Kirk.
posted by Joeforking at 5:00 PM on May 24, 2003

That is so beautiful. Thank you.
posted by riffola at 5:57 PM on May 24, 2003

And the clouds like shag rug, way down at the bottom.

Holy Jeebus.
posted by scarabic at 8:25 PM on May 24, 2003

Some of the other panoramas on that site are fantastic too. I just randomly clinked on some of the numbers at the top of the page. Good stuff.
posted by anathema at 8:33 PM on May 24, 2003

i particularly enjoyed "inside the mouth of dr. john riley".
posted by quonsar at 8:59 PM on May 24, 2003

Wonderful link. Thanks Kirk.
posted by holycola at 9:32 PM on May 24, 2003

Hear about that 15 year old girl that just climbed it Everest a couple days back, too lazy to find an article.
posted by bobo123 at 10:49 PM on May 24, 2003

any mefi's know how this can be done in quicktime vr?
posted by nish01 at 10:49 PM on May 24, 2003

The Times Square one is pretty neat too.
posted by crayfish at 1:16 AM on May 25, 2003

Wow just spent a few hours looking over the site very cool. The World Heritage Tour is a cool project.. travel the world documenting 700+ WH sites and get sponsors to pay yearly fees to showcase the panoramas. %7.1 completed. I just wonder how long this technology will last before bandwidth catches up and this becomes a ghost of the past replaced with real video. A few of them have background sound which is very nice.
posted by stbalbach at 7:34 AM on May 25, 2003