Renowned mountaineer David Breashears and his GlacierWorks organisation have launched an online experience called ‘Everest: Rivers of Ice’ in conjunction with Microsoft.
Using the latest functionality in Internet Explorer 10, Breashears and GlacierWorks have created an immersive, multi-touch exploration platform showcasing David’s life of mountaineering, filmmaking and photography in the Himalayan region.
So what does it do? Well ‘Everest: Rivers of Ice’ lets visitors travel the peaks and valleys of the Everest region through sweeping multi-touch HTML5 panoramas and rich interactive features that bring to life the peaks, valleys and glaciers from a never-before-seen bird’s eye view. For anyone planning a trek to Everest Base Camp, it gives you almost a ‘virtual trek’ along the route, starting at Lukla and ending at the foot of Everest itself with amazing, high-definition photos showing you every detail of the mountain terrain along the way.
Explorer, filmmaker and photographer Breashears began chronicling the changes to the glaciers of Mount Everest and the greater Himalayan region in 2007 when he first matched an iconic image taken in 1921 by explorer George Mallory. David’s photo revealed the stark changes occurred to this glacier during the 86 years since Mallory took his photo.
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