This is a 360 degree view you can spin around with your mouse - full screen the image (F11) for best effect. http://panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html Roderick Mackenzie made the image at the top of Mount Everest May 24 1989. Why did I climb Everest? I have a theory that people climb for the smell of it. Air at very high altitude smells completely different to lower altitudes. People become addicted to this smell and need more and more to get less and less of it. This is what makes them get higher. On the summit I felt a mixture of apprehension and curiosity. Our only comments to each other after initial congratulations were about the fact that the summit is precisely half way. It seemed to me that the curvature of the earth was apparent, and I spent some time trying to think of a means to test if this was a real observation or an illusion. In the end I decided it was an illusion, but it was a strong illusion. Overall my main feeling was of surprise. I am often surprised by the situations that I find myself in. My work in India has been eased slightly by my ascent of Everest. Many people on the subcontinent believe that an ascent of Everest conveys to the climber some manner of greater wisdom in manifold subjects. This I can not agree with, but I never dispute it.
If you sit in front of an air conditioner and spin the image around fast enough you can make yourself really dizzy. Then you’ll feel like you’re actually on top of Mt. Everest, it’s quite a triumph.
Never heard that before, anything to back up that claim? Mt. Everest is 29,028 ft., Aconcagua the tallest Mountain in S. America is 22,835 ft. If you drained all the water off of Earth the tallest mountain measured from base to summit is Mauna Kea, 30,000 ft.+ and growing.
I think he means from the summit to the center of the earth. Because of the fatness of earth around the equator, the farthest point from the core is a peak in Ecuador.
That’s very interesting, I knew of the earth’s equatorial bulge, but I hadn’t heard this little factoid before – the University of Clutch BBS is always in session. None of these mountains can hold a candle to Olympus Mons on Mars which is a staggering 88,600 ft tall.
I don't think this is the case, I think the Hawaii PR people are wrong. I think some of the Andes are taller than Mauna Key from the nearby ocean bottom to the top.
If a planet was rectangular, that would be pretty freaky when you walk up to the corners. I wonder how possible that is.
NO Idea there buddy. I just accidently clicked on a link on that website, and it took me to those honeys. lol
