Views from Mount Everest

This paintings show what mountaineers see while climbing Mount Everest. The north east ridge from below, the clouds above the valley of silence, avalanches and the last steps on the ridge below summit.

This landscape paintings have not been selectd by accident, but the reflect views from the most touristic paths on this mountain. Many climbers take the main routes over the south or the north col and have seen this.

It also could have been the last thing they see. Since this views can be seen from the main routes on Mount Everest, everone who has seen the sceneries in real, also has seen dead bodies on the way.

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Trek and Tourism on Mount Everest

The highest mountain in the world attracts many well-experienced mountaineers as well as novice climbers who are willing to pay substantial sums to professional mountain guides to complete a successful climb.

The mountain, while not posing substantial technical climbing difficulty on the standard route, still has many inherent dangers such as altitude sickness, weather, and wind.

By the end of the 2008 climbing season, there had been over 14.000 attemps to summit and over 4,500 ascents to the summit by about 2,700 individuals.By the end of 2009. More than a third of all ascents have been reached since 2007.

Image has been updated.

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“Top of the World” is finished

For the time being the “Top of the World” series is finished. It consists of 11 portraits of climbers on Mount Everest and two landscapes.

Some of the climbers summitted and successfully descended and some of them died. A later enhancement of the series is possible, espacially by the climbers who abandoned their summit attempt to help others. But for the near future I will investigate others things related to Mount Everest.

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Storm on Everest

The weather condition in Himalaya and especially on Mount Everest is extreme. Not only the very low temperature of in average between −36 °C and −19 °C on the summit and the thin air make it difficult to cope with the terrain.

Also the wind is a challenge for itself. For the reason of the small distance to India humid air reaches the summit of Mount Everest. It can be up to 300 km/h fast and lead to more than 3 meters fresh snow per day.

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