I never realised Everest was *that* big...

[Ali Wiseman]

... Until Now.

Holy Fucking Shitballs.  :ohmy:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Gigapans/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT.html

Control with Your mouse, and Enjoy! Wait till you spot a person, and then the sheer scale of it sinks in.

[John Nicholson]

Fantastic picture Dan.  I can't find anyone yet.

[Ali Wiseman]

Erm... I'm Ali... lol.

[Les Williams]

left hand side of the glacier from the near foreground, centre, all the way along the side of the ice is what looks like yellow coloured boulders...  :whistle:

[Doug Thompson]

[quote="NewStuff" post=12028]... Until Now.

Holy Fucking Shitballs.  :ohmy:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Gigapans/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT/EBC_Pumori_050112_8bit_FLAT.html

Control with Your mouse, and Enjoy! Wait till you spot a person, and then the sheer scale of it sinks in.[/quote]

Yes, I have stood on the bottom right of that picture and it is something to behold.

 :woohoo:  :woohoo:  :woohoo:

[mike leahy]

you seen the size of the guy at the top of the glasier. dead center before the snow plateau

[Ali Wiseman]

[quote="mike leahy" post=12033]you seen the size of the guy at the top of the glasier. dead center before the snow plateau[/quote]

I've found 4 people so far...

EDIT:-

Make that 14... busy place!

[Tim Watts]

14? Theres hundreds in base camp - then a line of about 20 at the top of the glacier heading up the first ice climb. (Or steepish snow walk!)

Was talking to Leo Holding about his trip up Everest about two years ago. His words - "its 'just' a long walk!"

Which hardly explains the number of people who died up there this year.... Think you're in the hands of the weather provided you've paid enough cash to have someone carry all your luggage and oxygen up there!

[Ali Wiseman]

[quote="timwatts" post=12044]14? Theres hundreds in base camp - then a line of about 20 at the top of the glacier heading up the first ice climb. (Or steepish snow walk!)[/quote]

I ignored Base camp, and didn't even get as far as the top of the Glacier. It seems *far* more people do his than I thought.

[John Nicholson]

I guess I have been looking at the wrong mountain.
Very impressed with you Doug for going anywhere near this place.
It most certainly does make Snowdon seem a bit tame.

[Tim Watts]

its a big bloody tourist trip these days - if you pay enough you'll be 'taken' to the top and back. £25,000 upwards buys you a guaranteed ticket up and down i think.

[Doug Thompson]

Base camp, taken from tho top of mount Kalapatar.

[mike leahy]

[quote="timwatts" post=12060]its a big bloody tourist trip these days - if you pay enough you'll be 'taken' to the top and back. £25,000 upwards buys you a guaranteed ticket up and down i think.[/quote]you don't get any garantees of reaching the top. if the weather turns  your fooked.read"into thin air"

[Doug Thompson]

A cremation in Kathmandu, Yes, that is somebodies feet sticking out of a pile of wood.

[mike leahy]

looks like something you would have seen in toxteth in the 70s :ohmy:  :ohmy: