need to be carefull when you going to such height. need to rest for a night every 1000 meters or so. heard lot of stories of ppl who tried to climb that, felt not good up there and died somehow. probably because of no rest and not giving the body time to adapt. so be carefull when you do it! you probably allready know it!
We (me and my wife) already had one week at around 4000 m, and the trek would include camping one night at around 5000 m, and also going with a guide, so there wasn't much risk involved, but I can't say whether we would make it all the way to the summit. Probably, but hard to predict how the body would react. But I had a bad cold and a temperature above 38C, so it would be a very miserable climb had we not cancelled it.
Sunset as seen from our hotel room in Prague 2016-07-22. Single (cropped) frame from a video recorded with my new Sony FDR-AX53B 4K camera. I'm quite impressed with its performance. Now I need a 4K TV...
When I woke up this morning, I did not expect I would document a naval battle straight out of the old world. The Lady Washington (AKA "HMS Interceptor" of The Pirates of the Caribbean) exchanges fire with the Hawaiian Chieftain.
Cool. Was it possible to see it with your naked eyes?
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Now I need a 4K TV...
Got one! I grew up with a b/w TV, one channel broadcasting a few hours a day. 4K is science fiction in comparison. We got a colour TV when I was around 8 years old, but still just one channel.
Cool. Was it possible to see it with your naked eyes?
I didn't see this one directly since I was watching the preview on the camera screen, but others watching said they could see it. It wasn't a very strong one though, since too much of the disk was still in view. It's best when the detached segments are magnified by a mirage and the only part remaining.
One interesting thing from here is having the sun vanish into distant trees. Individual patches of the disk shining through the gaps will sometimes turn green before vanishing, giving a sparkling emerald quality to the last sliver of sun.
The best green flashes I've seen by eye were one from Hawaii, and an extremely intense cloud-top flash from here (but had no camera since I didn't expect it), which went all the way to blue.
I don1t do nothing productive with my lifetime,just procrastinate. I made some minimalistic art,and I am seeing tutorials to motion graphics. But,other than that,Im a lazy idiot.
anonymousgamer, that's a nice visual! How long did it take to put it together?
~ Yesterday I hiked up toward a mountain glacier. So in this post I shall share the beauty of glacial ice.
The hike starts descending through a nice valley. The mountain lies beyond, its summit shrouded in cloud.
After about 4 more miles, finally come face to face with the mountain. This is one of its lower glaciers, fed from avalanches and serac falls from thousands of feet above (to get right on it would be unwise).
Meltwater cascades off the steep terrain, producing a constant roar.
Close-up of the glacier. There is no sense of scale in this terrain.
Another close-up. Here I put in a vertical green line to represent the height of a human.
Looking back now towards the neighbor mountain, Baker.
And a close-up of its heavily crevassed glacial slopes.
Yesterday in Oslo, however, was pretty miserable for hikes. Worst floods in at least 20 years. I measured 74 mm in a few hours. A nice waterspout appeared as well, which is a bit unexpected since they usually form in warmer weather and yesterday had not seen temperatures above 14C.
It was just in the right position to be captured by one of my meteor cams, but unfortunately the funnel was too thin and far away. This is what the camera recorded, the waterspout is over the fjord at the left side, but only visible with some imagination...
midtskogen, ohh wow that alot. we have 500mm all year! i heard from my friend in finland that this summer is very rainy, stormy, thunders than normal. i guess its striked all scandinavia
"we began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still" -carl sagan
i heard from my friend in finland that this summer is very rainy, stormy, thunders than normal.
"More rainy than normal" means "a normal summer" in Scandinavia. Because we tend to remember the two or three sunny, warm days of the summer and forget the other hundred rainy ones. :)
Obligatory show-off: 16 years ago I sailed from mainland Norway to Svalbard (for the second time), and wrote an itinerary, in six parts, in Latin. Unfortunately, my Latin writing skills have declined since.
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