npr:
Thanks to my favorite twin satellites (Terra and Aqua) and some remarkably clear days before and after this weekend’s snowstorm, we can see the extent of the snowfall FROM SPACE.
It really is a colossal amount of snow. -Emily
Weather is weird.
But also, rest assured that it should not have been that green that late in the season.
npr:
In 2008, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempted to summit Meru, a 21,000-foot mountain in the Garhwal Himalayas in northern India. Some of the greatest climbers in the world have tried and failed to reach its peak — a sheer granite wall known as the Shark’s Fin.
“The Shark’s Fin to a climber is really irresistible,” Chin explains to NPR’s David Greene. “What really makes it challenging is that you have this kind of big wall on top of basically 4,000 feet of alpine climbing.”
The mountain defeated the climbers in 2008. Battling subzero temperatures and more than 10 feet of snow, they were forced to turn around just 100 meters shy of the summit.
Against all odds, the trio returned to Meru in 2011. Chin filmed both ascents and co-directed a documentary about the two expeditions.
For 3 Climbers, Summiting Meru Was An ‘Irresistible’ Challenge
Photos: Jimmy Chin/Courtesy of Music Box Films (top); Renan Ozturk/Courtesy of Music Box Films (bottom)
Reblogging for the beautiful imagery.
