Mt. Everest in 3D

[Iceaxe]

This is pretty cool and worth a look.

http://everestavalanchetragedy.com/mt-everest-journey.html

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[agostinone]

Thanks for pointing this out. I finally read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air this summer so this helped peace some things together for me.

[Rob L]

Someone I know is a helicopter pilot in Nepal. He was recently involved in the recovery/rescue after the last big avalanche.

The caption to the attached photo is:

"Entering into the 'Kumbh' of Sagarmatha [Everest] is a dead end tomb, into the 'dead zone' where Your body begins to slowly die.
Here seen climbing through 20,000' surrounded by Everest 29,035' Lhotse 27,940' Nhuptse 25,791' a 4.4nm deep, dead end valley from where, escape is the same way out, or over the top near camp 2, was flying at 22,200' AMSL which was 150' AGL"

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A zillion aerial photos of Everest and Nepal here (http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/483614-top-world-photos-nepal.html)

[christensen]

Its always great to listen a success of anybody i don't like ice so much but congrats

[Rob L]

My pal Simon is a bit busy again flying evacs. He's one of the few who can operate to those altitudes.

This was his picture at Base Camp 24th April before the avalanche: .http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h338/rotors99/ADDCDCE6-EBE3-48C0-BFCB-D4347AE9C031.jpg

It must be a grim task now; 5 cadavers loaded per trip.

Rob