Mount Everest-Monte Everest -360 panorama view from summit - Climbing Mt Everest - Nepal Trekking-panoramic photo from top of Mont Everest

via panoramas.dk

Brilliant. You have to go to the site to see the panorama. Just clickity click on the linkity link

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Photos show dramatic shrinking of Mount Everest glaciers - Telegraph

via telegraph.co.uk

The first was taken in 1921 by British mountaineer George Mallory, who later died trying to conquer Everest.
The Asia Society commissioned the same picture to be taken of the main Rongbuk glacier on the northern slope of Mount Everest in Tibet in 2007.
The new picture by mountaineer David Breashears show that the glacier is shrunk and withered.
A spokesman for the Asia Society said the picture was proof the ice is melting because of climate change, threatening water sources in highly populated areas of India and China.
"The photographs reveal a startling truth: the ice of the Himalaya is disappearing," he said. "They reveal an alarming loss in ice mass."

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Scots climber, 28, is left to die on Everest after losing sight on way down from the summit.

via news.scotsman.com

Peter Kinloch, 28, from Skye, lost his sight as he descended from the 29,029ft summit and his condition deteriorated despite efforts to save him.

Mr Kinloch was taking part in the Seven Summits Challenge where climbers tackle the highest mountain on each continent.

He was struck down just 14 hours after conquering the world's highest mountain last week. He had reached the peak on 25 May but died around 2am the next day.

A blog written by a team mate described how Mr Kinloch began losing co-ordination before losing his sight – a condition he told fellow climbers had struck him before.

Three Sherpas administered drugs and oxygen over a 12-hour period and attempted to coax him down from a point called Mushroom Rock but finally had to abandon him, blind and with frostbite on two of his fingers, at an altitude of 8,600 metres, as the weather deteriorated.

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Skywatch Friday

An old one. On the way to Everest Base Camp.

More nice skies at the Skywatch Friday site.

Olympic Torch Finally Shakes off Protestors

Just a cheer squad.