Gigapixel Image Of Mt. Everest And The Khumbu Glacier

by Mike Wilkinson December 14, 2012 6 Comments

Created by David Breashears this past spring, this gigapixel image shows some incredible detail of the Everest and Khumbu areas. If you look in the lower center, you can see the sprawl of Everest base camp, with the Khumbu Glacier icefall curving from just above the basecamp up towards the mountains. Apart from being visually stunning, images like these could prove useful for expedition planning, given their immense detail. Via GlacierWorks.

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Bert McLendon December 14, 2012

Holycrap! Ok, so at first glance, for some reason, the mountain looked "small"... Not sure what it is about it but I'm guessing there wasn't anything at first glance to show scale. Then I saw the base camps and my brain shot out of my ears! Thanks for making me kill an our out of my work day looking at every pixel. =)