I'll admit it: I have perfectionist tendencies. Not that everything (anything?) I do is perfect - far from it. But, I do have some mutated, recessive gene (thanks, family) that makes me get obsessive about certain things, trying to improve then perfect them to the point of insanity. One such thing is the Virtual Everest […]
I had just been revisiting photos from my time with him in Khumbu in 2012 when I heard the news that Jim Whittaker sadly passed away on April 7 at age 97. I'd been going through photos, looking for a specific one, of a specific peak, when I went down a rabbit hole. Photos of […]
Big Jim. A gentle giant. A gem of a human, and a loss that will be missed. Jim Whittaker, who passed away at 97 on April 7, was - to say the least - an amazing person. Like his twin brother - Lou Whittaker, who passed two years back - Jim was a massive man, […]
Visit Mount Everest and the surrounding peaks and valleys virtually with this interactive, 5.5 gigabyte panorama by Jake Norton.
gigapan, mount everest, panorama
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hope, inspiration, perspective, Rebecca Solnit, Rene Descartes, Thursday Thought
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croatia, Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, love
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impermanence, inspiration, perspective, Thursday Thought
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