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Friday, October 9, 2009

Explore The Himalayas On Street View


You tin directly explore the Everest portion using Google Maps Street View. To capture these stunning panoramas Google teamed upward alongside Apa Sherpa (a Sherpa mountaineer who holds the basis tape for reaching the laissez passer on of Mount Everest 21 times) as well as the Nepalese nonprofit organization Story Cycle.

During a 10-day trek through the Khumbu portion alongside Apa Sherpa Google managed to capture Street Views of mount trails as well as a publish of Sherpa villages. The best means to explore the novel Street View imagery is to see the novel Khumba map on Google Treks.


The Khumba site on Google Treks includes some lovely hand-drawn maps of the featured villages. Each of the maps include map markers which Pb to Street Views captured on Google's 10-day trek. These include Street View imagery of monasteries, temples, trekker's lodges as well as of shape some wonderful scenery of the Himalayas.