Nanda Devi East

In September 2008 we trekked in the Nanda Devi area of the Indian Himalaya with World Expeditions. Due to bad weather in the early days we were not able to complete all the objectives of the walk but we had some fine views of Nanda Devi and explored much of the Gori Ganga gorge.

The button to the left takes you to the slides of the trip. This is a flash presentation and has a music track.To get back here click the Earthshot banner. The controls are at the bottom along with the film strip and the little rectangular button, bottom right, gives a full screen view, well worth looking at.

The mountain to the right shows a graphical overview of the area, and the trek with many panoramas and fly throughs. There are also links here to a 10 minute video, some panoramas and some "zoomify" views of partial panoramas.

The button to the left links to 3, 360 deg panoramas taken on the trek with my little G9 digital. I used the Canon photo stitch utility to stitch the frames together and Garden Gnome's Pano2VR to produce the final flash file.

Terrain Renderings

Zoom pans

There do seem to be problems playing these files in full screen mode with Microsoft IE. They work fine in Firefox and Chrome, but in IE they often fail to respond to the mouse in full screen mode. They will display and slowly rotate but if you try to take control it will probably not work. The full screen view is so much better that I think it well worth installing one of the abovementioned browsers.

For a more detailed look at these photos select the menu item "Zoom Pan" from the menu bar below the panoramas. This will show the same picture at a higher resolution. They are in the Zoomify format (see below). Full screen mode works with IE here and you can see the whole 360 deg but cannot pan across the seam.

Zoom Photos

10 Minute

Trek

On the right above are two links to more Flash items. They were made with Zoomify which displays correctly with all tested browsers. The top links to stitched panoramas while the lower "Zoom Photos" show single images in the zoomify format.

These are detailed photos that are split into small, seamless tiles that are loaded only when required, thus enabling you to zoom into the picture without loss of detail, although more data has to be loaded into your browser and this may take a bit of time. I generally use this on panoramas that are not the full 360 deg. but here we have the full ones as well (see above).

Click on the filmstrip button to the left for a short video of the trek in wmv format.