Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

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Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

by johnm » Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:26 pm

Here is the link:

https://www.google.com/maps?layer=c&cbp=12,256.1,,0,20.05&panoid=W9nMFNrPp8GrTDYyVaHYBg&t=m&cbll=-32.653135,-70.012024&ie=UTF8&ll=-32.670593,-69.991493&spn=0.278601,0.489578&z=12&source=embed

Here is the story:

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-street-view-highest-point-20130315,0,782738.story

I now feel qualified to do a mountain / route page since I have proxy summited :roll:
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Re: Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

by MichaelRyanSD » Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:22 am

I don't understand what the guy meant in the article by saying they did it to help adventurers like themselves. How does seeing a picture of the summit help?
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Re: Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

by simonov » Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:48 pm

MichaelRyanSD wrote:I don't understand what the guy meant in the article by saying they did it to help adventurers like themselves. How does seeing a picture of the summit help?


So you know it when you get there. Nothing more embarrassing than carrying on climbing after you have already reached the summit.
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Re: Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

by SeracMac » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:50 pm

It's got clouds all around ... sure you can see the south face, but it's kind of like doing an urban street view when there's so much fog you can't see what anything is/says.
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Re: Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

by MichaelRyanSD » Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:23 am

I know this is a little sarcastic, but I always figured I reached the top when there was nowhere left to go but down
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Re: Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

by chickentikka » Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:02 pm

Damn, why did I spend 7 days climbing that mountain when I just could have googled it?

I'm such a dope.
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Re: Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

by youngclimer123 » Sat May 11, 2013 1:28 am

just watch they will have that for every summit soon.
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Re: Aconcagua summit - Google streetview

by dadndave » Sat May 11, 2013 2:02 am

Betcha there's a turd under every cairn.
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