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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.
Oil Painting, Portraits and Landscape Painting
Ölgemälde, Porträt, Landschaftsbilder
135 * 120 cm, 2012
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.
Mt. Everest has two main climbing routes, the southeast ridge from Nepal and the northeast ridge from Tibet, as well as many other less frequently climbed routes.Of the two main routes, the southeast ridge is technically easier and is the more frequently used route. The route using north-east ridge is cheaper. Both of the latter routes are used a lot, so that one could see long treks of climbers on nice days.
Records are measured for almost everything: the youngest person to climb Mount Everest, and the oldest one. The fastest ascent with and without bottled oxygen, the first helicopter landing, the first descent by paraglider and the first descent by ski. Base camps have almost grown to cities and organized tourism tours are regularily visiting them.
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I did not like the old foreground, so I changed it. Better?
Vielen Dank – ich hatte mir allerdings extra Mühe gegeben, die Figuren zu verankern. Ich weiß also leider auch nicht, wieso sie schweben 😉
Ich weiß nicht wie,aber du schaffst es das die Menschen in deinen Bildern schweben!Es gefällt mir sehr!