Mount Everest

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…

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