Amazing pictures. Looks like an alien planet. Several of them had me do a double take on the scale. I have seldom seen a more useful "human for scale".
I judged off the scale 10 to 100 times before I saw the humans in the picture. There seem's to be something fractal about the appearance of rock and snow, or maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the subject matter.
I don't know the answer, but there's a famous lost camera owned by a team that perished on Everest before Hillary/Norgay successfully climbed it. It's possible that the camera contains proof of an earlier first ascent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory#Reaching_the_su...
It's an ad for some company that tracks glacier movement, but honestly it's not too bad. If the prerequisite for sponsored content is that you have to prove yourself by mounting an expedition, I'm OK with that.
What impressed me most about this story is that Teton Gravity Research isn't actually a research company, they're a action sports film production house with a funny name. They make (very good) movies of snowboarders, skiers, and mountain bikers.
Visually, "The Sanctity of Space" [0], starring huge amounts of Washburns archival footage, was absolutely stunning. As a movie, I found it to be a bit too long winded
> “From a cultural resource management perspective, it presents a rare and valuable opportunity to study change over time on an archaeological site in a dynamic glacial environment.”
It's cool that there are people who care so much to look into what can be learned from the minutiae of these kinds of one-off events. I suppose this case ladders up into archaeology as an entire field, but this kind of niche interest-within-an-interest exists all over the place. I find it really inspiring, it makes me proud of humanity!
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https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/47-bradford-was...
I judged off the scale 10 to 100 times before I saw the humans in the picture. There seem's to be something fractal about the appearance of rock and snow, or maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the subject matter.
Kodak has published instructions for how to protect the camera and develop the film, if it's ever found: https://web.archive.org/web/20130303001517/http://www.veloci...
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https://tgrtv.tetongravity.com/
You're not entirely wrong, the article is pretty much an ad, but it's for the upcoming film about the search and the recovery.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9806166/
It's cool that there are people who care so much to look into what can be learned from the minutiae of these kinds of one-off events. I suppose this case ladders up into archaeology as an entire field, but this kind of niche interest-within-an-interest exists all over the place. I find it really inspiring, it makes me proud of humanity!
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