High Tech Everest
- 19 Apr 07, 07:56 AM
It is a marvel of modern technology, I am currently sitting in a tent in Base Camp with two monitors in front of me beaming pictures back from the helmet of Mike Grocott nearly a vertical kilometre above. The images are perfect and offer a rather eerie armchair view of someone climbing a mountain -or in this case coming down.
Yesterday the climbing team set off through the vicious Khumbu Ice Fall to stay their first night at Camp 1. The climb took most of them about 8 hours, some even longer, Pasang one of the Sherpas can do the same journey in just 3 hours! On the way up we sat and watch and as I do now on the way down. The landscape is a bewildering mix of ice boulders the size of houses, deep crevasses crossed by rickety ladders and smooth open snow plains. Amazing scenery, but the most dangerous part of Everest on the south side, 3 were killed here last year.
But our technological advances don’t stop at helmet cameras, yesterday we also successfully tested a live link to London Television Centre, and tomorrow we’ll set up so Mike Grocott can be interviewed live at Everest Base Camp from a nice air conditioned studio in west London. It’s a miracle, if it works that is.
PS. A special mention of Nick Bonner the amazing man who invented our head camera system, nice one mate.
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I understand that you are doing a programme on this Everest project. When you do it you can make historical comments about previous experditions made by UCL in the thirties. The Dept. of Physiology make trips to Everest to conduct experiments. They have films of the trips which you could include.
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