Higher photography Earth yet occurred. The international group of photographers led by Italian Filippo Blenigni, published gigantic highest peaks in Europe and the 11th highest peaks in the world panorama shot.
Incredible picture Mont Blanc took 35 hours. continuous shooting and about 70 thousand. shots. Project leader F. Blenigni said that inspired this project himself Mont Blanc.
"We just wanted to convey such, what our eyes see it - amazingly beautiful and unspeakably sublime, - said the Italian. - We were brave, crazy and ambitious. Therefore, we achieved on its own. We have made a gigantic panoramic picture, which shows every detail hill. "
A five-person team spent two Alps 2014 end of weeks. Photographers worked 3.5 km altitude -10 ° C cold. Mont Blanc was photographed cameras Canon EF 400mm f / 2.8 IS II Canon 70D DSLR and Canon Extender 2x III, with a special robot-stand. In all directions from a total of 70 thousand captured. shots. The total duration of the shooting - 35 hours.
Authors of the project plans to return to the Alps and to work with two other similar-sized panoramic photo - photographed mountain to the other corners. These frames can be complemented by mountaineering routes, climbers and photographs and perhaps even find a yourself.
No less impressive and recorded material processing statistics. 46 terabytes of information Photographers "sewing" 2 months. If the picture to be printed in 300 dpi, it would be the size of a football field.
4810 m high Mont Blanc, which at the top and wind speeds of up to 95 km / h., Is one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. But this formidable peaks reputation not deterred from flowing around the world adventurers - each year trying to climb Mont Blanc about 20 thousand. mountaineers.
Unfortunately, many of these daredevils expeditions returned traumatized, and every year the Mont Blanc swallowed after 30-70 victims.
Mont Blanc panoramic photography has surpassed so far kept at a record 2013. London panorama shot, which is a 45 Billion pixels smaller. True, NASA has even greater - 681 Billion pixels shot, but it commemorates the moon (the author - probe LRO, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter).
Wander the slopes of Mont Blanc immortalized in the photo here.
