High-altitude drone captures rare view of Mount Everest

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This year, Renan Ozturk, a 39-year-old professional mountaineer and filmmaker on assignment for National Geographic, set out to make just such a photograph. His plan was to use a specially modified drone to create a 360-degree panorama that would portray Everest in its full grandeur but also reveal its commanding position in one of the planet’s most colossal landscapes.

Ozturk’s image is the next step in a decades-long chronicle of photography and mapping on the mountain. Pioneering aerial photographer and cartographer Bradford Washburn shot some aerial photos in the 1950s for National Geographic for the original Everest map, Ozturk noted. “But he wasn’t able to get that close and detailed.”

“He would be so excited about this new technology,” said Ozturk, who is quick to credit the science behind his own photograph. “Honestly, it’s a triumph of technology. We just took it to its full potential.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/2019/06/mount-everest-aerial-north-side-drone-photography/

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Aww that's so cool! No fail, every time I go to the mountains, I'm always amazed at their scale and grandeur. I can't imagine what it must be like to stand at the base of this monster.

I'm also very curious, with the amount of people on GGD, if any of our members have ever been to the base camp or even better, attempted to climb Everest. 

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I would love to see a higher resolution version of this photo 🤤