Have you ever said to yourself, “One day I’m going to climb Mount Everest!” Well, now you can from the comfort of your own bedroom!
FilmmakerDavid Breashears teamed up with non-profit organization GlacierWorks to create and interactive image of Mount Everest that allows you to zoom in to make you feel as if you were actually climbing it yourself! The image was created off of 477 photos that were captured on a 300-millimeter lens (taken by David Breashears himself) and put together.
“It’s a very interesting time to be looking at the mountain,” said Breashears. He went on to say, “After a while I became interested in climate change and how it was affecting he area. Out of that came the idea for matching photography with the Royal Geographical Society to show the first images from Everest with current ones.”
The duo has also teamed up with the Royal Geographical Society in London to make a sequence of before and after photos to show the effect climate has had since 1921!
Mount Everest is famous for being the world’s tallest mountain. The top of the mountain is at 8,848 meters high! After Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the top of the mountain in 1953, it became the most famous mountain for climbers. Its two main climbing routes are the North Ridge from Tibet and the Southeast Ridge from Nepal.