Mountaineering disasters are fascinating, especially in how they illustrate extremes of human behavior and endurance—the way people get lost and die barely feet from safely. Written reports rarely make sense of the confusing geography of dangerous peaks, though, and screen depictions are mostly (and necessarily) visual fiction. So is it with awed delight that I ran across Explore-Everest.com, which allows me to climb Mount Everest in 3D from the safety of my desk.
Experience the harrowing trek to the summit of the Earth’s highest mountain.
There's a description of the recent Khumbu Icefall disaster, but not see any of the mountain's permanent residents: they removed them from the imagery, as far as I can tell. There are so many up there (NSFL), their colorful sporty gear poking from the snowdrifts, that mountaineers supposedly call it the Rainbow Valley.
