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Mount Everest 50th Anniversary NGS Wall Map

Mount Everest on a double-sided wall map from the National Geographic, produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent, combining on one side a spectacular panorama model highlighting three historical expedition routes, plus on the reverse a map of the Sagarmatha National Park, aerial views of the peak, etc.On one side is a spectacular photo-like panorama of the Everest area produced from digital data: 5m contour lines and aerial stereo-photographs combined to provide a three dimensional model. Coverage extends south-west to the 1953 and the present day Base Camps; from the peak of Mt Everest the map stretches beyond the North Col and Changtse, and on the other side Lhotse and Nuptse are included. Contour lines are drawn at 100m intervals; heights for peaks and passes are both in meters and feet. An overprint shows the routes of the British 1953 expedition when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reaches the summit, of the 1963 US expedition when James Whittacker become the first American to climb Mt. Everest, and of the Chinese expedition which in 1960 became the first to reach the summit from the north side.On the reverse side is a map of the Sagarmatha National Park at 1:90,000 with finely drawn relief shading and colouring providing an excellent representation of the mountainous terrain. Coverage extends south to Lukla and the map shows settlements and various places of interest as well as trekking routes to the Everest Base Camp, Gokyo Lakes, the Island Peak and the Nangpa Glacier and Pass. Surrounding panels and text provide more information: aerial photos of the southern and the northern approaches overprinted with various expedition routes, a map showing the increase in the number of visitors to the area, notes and drawings about the Tibetan borderlands and sherpas homeland, etc.

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