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Browsing around my hard disk after I’d reinstalled XP and the various other bits and bobs that colonise my folders, I came across this picture. I can’t remember when it was taken, or even if I took it, but it reminded me so strongly of home that it caught my breath for a minute or two.

I’m homesick now.

The next best thing to being there is a desktop image – so now my icons are hovering over Great Gable, which makes me feel much better.

This site is a collection of amazing 360-degree QTVR panoramas, and this is the most stunning of the lot – a 360-degree view from the top of Mount Everest. The view from a browser is incredible, so to experience it in the flesh must be one of the experiences of a lifetime.

What gives this picture some personal significance is a familial connection with someone who’s seen this first-hand. A fascinating person and a jolly good fellow to boot – the last time I met him was hours after the birth of his first grandchild, so he was in an understandably good mood. And by the time he (and we) had downed several of my grandfather-in-law’s infamous measures of Scotch, the mood was even more celebratory.

And courtesy of the intrepid mountaineer (or his web design firm, at least), here’s a 360-degree view of the village where I spent a number of my formative years – the house to the left of the lamppost is where I lived for about five years…