Description: Worlds tallest peak, highest mountain. This is a series of placemarks and tracks/path'es showing an impression of the climbing tour from basecamp(s) to the top of the world. The 2 major routes (out of at least 18 routes) are (roughly) shown in red (North Col, Northeast ridge) and blue (South Col, Southeast ridge). Several places of mountain climbing interest along the two routes are also pinpointed. The 'Play tour' option of GE will take you on a trip on first the south and then the north approach. Finally we take a flight around the summit. Please note that especially the tracks very much are approximations of the plausible route and nothing near the exact climb. No one has been hurt during the use of this for climbing (mostly because no one hopefully has used them), but they will, if they do!!! The 'South Col' tour is considered the 'easy' trip, but I believe that people taking (the real) tour to the top of Everest are really tough people, no matter what route they take! Even from satelite pictures and Google Earth terrain feature you get a feeling (and I guess never near the real thing) of how really really big this mountain is!
Enjoy. Tour creator: Tom Kjeldsen, created march 2008. Recommended to be viewed as a 'Play tour' in Google Earth with terrain feature enabled. |
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