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The highest railway in the world
hightrain.gifFirst images of the pan-Himalayan line who climbs 5072m (16 640ft) above sea level and runs across Tibet's snow-covered plateau, providing a link between Beijing and Lhasa.
Hikr in Google Earth
gearthikr.gifHikr is a kind of social website for sharing hiking tracks, travelogues and photos. I especially like the new feature of Hikr to browse points of interest — like peaks — with Google Earth.
Cubic Panorama of Mountain Rysi/Rysy
rysi-panorama.gifA QuickTime VR i recently did while hiking in the slovakian High Tatras National Park. The red stone, in the center of the summit, is a borderstone because the Rysi (2499m) is situated on slovakian as well as on polish territory.
Hong Kong Citylights
hong_kong_by_night.gifPhotos of Hong Kong by Night. Via Life in the Present.
Equinox Panorama
geoimage.gifTwo quite different contributions (Rome, Zermatt), out of many others, to the World Wide Panorama Project of Geoimages.
Antarctica Weblog
antarcticaBeth Bartel is working as part of a group which studies Mt. Erebus, the southernmost active volcano. The Weblog. Via Metafilter.
Matterhorn
Cloudless, brilliant QuickTime VR (2MB) shot above Hörnli Hut at 3280m hosted by panoramas.dk. Light-flooded Dacha-Panoramas by Beeflowers.