What's the highest point you've ever gone to, in order to shoot a photograph?
Dec 16, 2017 06:05:34 #
sidpearce wrote:
A visit to Nepal. Three days wait for the weather to clear and a flight over Everest
Ok, I’ve done that as well fun time flying around Everest
Dec 16, 2017 07:00:30 #
13,600ft located amongst many fourteeners in Colorado. Did not try any of the 14'ers due to altitude sickness on the 13'er.
Dec 16, 2017 07:17:18 #
Chris T wrote:
The word "climb" was originally going to be in here, but, I decided, perhaps, I'd leave that part open, so you could fill in the details ....
13,114', although the official height is 13,803' - Mauna Kea, on the Big Island. It was very cold and windy. September, 2008.
Dec 16, 2017 07:28:23 #
DMGill wrote:
Mt Evans. 14,271’ On the east coast: 10,000 in a helicopter to photograph a commercial building in Patterson, NJ, in relation to the major roads near it.
I haven't thought of the Rockies since I was a kid. In simmer of 66 I hiked to the top of Grays Peak with a few other guys and mistakenly camped over night. It should have been a good camp but a storm cloud raked the top that night and drenched us in ice cold rain. We were fine by 10AM but it sure messed up our night. Thanks for the memories. :-)
Dec 16, 2017 07:49:07 #
Walt R
Loc: eastern tn
Does treking to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro 19k' count shooting ektachrome 100 in 1990 count ? Have to scan all those mounts some day . Shot all kinds of assignments from
light planes and helicopters .
light planes and helicopters .
Dec 16, 2017 08:28:38 #
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Dec 16, 2017 09:44:02 #
markie1425 wrote:
Also hanging out of a helicopter in Vietnam. Almost every day.
Thank you for your service.
Dec 16, 2017 09:46:24 #
On top of Mt Whitney ...High Sierras, Calif....when I was young. 1970's 14,505 ft. (today's value)
The estimated elevation of the summit of Mount Whitney has changed over the years. The technology of elevation measurement has become more refined and, more importantly, the vertical coordinate system has changed. The peak was commonly said to be at 14,494 ft (4,418 m) and this is the elevation stamped on the USGS brass benchmark disk on the summit. An older plaque on the summit (sheet metal with black lettering on white enamel) reads "elevation 14,496.811 feet" but this was estimated using the older vertical datum (NGVD29) from 1929. Since then the shape of the Earth (the geoid) has been estimated more accurately. Using a new vertical datum established in 1988 (NAVD88) the benchmark is now estimated to be at 14,505 ft (4,421 m).[5][16]
The estimated elevation of the summit of Mount Whitney has changed over the years. The technology of elevation measurement has become more refined and, more importantly, the vertical coordinate system has changed. The peak was commonly said to be at 14,494 ft (4,418 m) and this is the elevation stamped on the USGS brass benchmark disk on the summit. An older plaque on the summit (sheet metal with black lettering on white enamel) reads "elevation 14,496.811 feet" but this was estimated using the older vertical datum (NGVD29) from 1929. Since then the shape of the Earth (the geoid) has been estimated more accurately. Using a new vertical datum established in 1988 (NAVD88) the benchmark is now estimated to be at 14,505 ft (4,421 m).[5][16]
Dec 16, 2017 09:48:07 #
Gudehus
Loc: Oregon and California
In 1963, I climbed to the rim of the volcano Popocatepetl in Mexico. That was 17,000 feet. Very hard to breathe up there!
Dec 16, 2017 09:52:59 #
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Dec 16, 2017 10:11:35 #
RichardTaylor wrote:
See the cogs in the middle of the track (vacation snapshot)
Oh, okay, Richard ... so that catches on with the bottom of the carriage, does it? .... And then you crank it, do you?
What's with that diagonal line all across the picture (darker below, lighter above) .... ?
Dec 16, 2017 10:12:57 #
one shot wrote:
Thanks for this thread. I enjoy reading about the experiences.
Oh, great, Eleanor ... glad I came up with an interesting one, at long last ....
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