{"id":1277,"date":"2009-05-25T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2009-05-25T10:23:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T16:23:34","slug":"the-technology-behind-filming-an-everest-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/the-technology-behind-filming-an-everest-ascent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Technology Behind Filming an Everest Ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.allclimbing.com\/images\/Adventure_Travel_-_National_Geographic_Adventure_Magazine-20090525-101836.jpg?w=750\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Technology Behind Filming an Everest Ascent\" alt=\"Technology Behind Filming an Everest Ascent\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ngadventure.typepad.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/extreme-tech-everest-filmmaking-with-macbook-pros-solar-power.html\">National Geographic Adventure Travel<\/a> blog interviews the First Ascent team about the technology behind their Everest filmmaking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>weather permitting, mountaineers Ed Viesturs, Peter Whittaker, and other members of the First Ascent team will take on the summit of Everest. And even though we have not yet donned our down jackets, we&#8217;ve been there every step of the way\u00e2??through the avalanches, illnesses, and one of the largest storms of the season. This is thanks to the daily, three-minute video dispatches produced right from the world&#8217;s tallest mountain. The carefully choreographed process begins with the video getting back up on an Apple MacBook Pro from high on the mountain. It&#8217;s then carried on solid state memory cards down to Base Camp. Once there, the footage is loaded on to another MacBook Pro and edited for public viewing in Final Cut Pro<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2009\/05\/24\/weekend-news-roundup-no-talkcast-this-week\/\">TUAW<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Geographic Adventure Travel blog interviews the First Ascent team about the technology behind their Everest filmmaking. weather permitting, mountaineers Ed Viesturs, Peter Whittaker, and other members of the First Ascent team will take on the summit of Everest. And even though we have not yet donned our down jackets, we&#8217;ve been there every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[169,249],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-kB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}