ULTIMATE HEIGHTS – MAMMUT’S PROJECT 360 CONQUERS MOUNT EVEREST

MAMMUT’S PROJECT 360 CONQUERS MOUNT EVEREST

A new milestone in virtual mountaineering was celebrated this week. As the four Nepalese mountain guides Lakpa Sherpa and Pemba Rinji Sherpa and their supporters Kusang Sherpa and Ang Kaji Sherpa, became the first men in the world to document the whole South route to the summit of Mount Everest with a 360° camera rig for Mammut’s.

Capturing the breathtaking views from the world’s highest mountain, Mammut’s project360 plays a pioneering role in bringing the real life Mount Everest experience into peoples’ living rooms.

Taking their pioneering virtual mountaineering expeditions to the ultimate heights. The project360 Everest expedition started near Lhukla.

After the blessings of a local Buddhist monk, the expedition members set off by foot to make their way to the Everest Basecamp at the bottom of the Khumbu glacier at 5380 meters of altitude.

In the base camp the preparations for the ascent to the summit started immediately and apart from preparing the camera kit, technical director of project360 Taugwalder also explained the equipment to the Sherpas.

Who climbed all the way up to the summit with the 360° rigs. After the customary Buddhist Puja ceremony, where the Sherpa climbers asked the divine Mount Everest for clear passage, the serious climbing began.