A digital Everest experience invites people to feel like they are climbing the world’s tallest peak, all from the comfort of home.
Filmmaker David Breashears partnered with GlacierWorks to create an interactive image of Mount Everest that lets viewers zoom in to feel as if they are guiding the ascent themselves. The image was assembled from 477 photographs taken with a 300-mm lens by Breashears and stitched into a seamless panorama.
Breashears notes that climate change sparked a broader inquiry into the mountain and led to a collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society to pair historic Everest imagery with contemporary views.
In addition, GlacierWorks and the Royal Geographical Society in London produced a sequence of before-and-after photographs to illustrate how climate has shaped Everest since 1921.
Mount Everest is renowned for being the world’s tallest peak. The summit reaches 8,848 meters above sea level. After the ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, Everest became a symbol for climbers worldwide. The two primary routes used today are the North Ridge from Tibet and the Southeast Ridge from Nepal.