"Vertical Street View" appeared, so that you can climb Yosemite's huge monolith "El Capitan"

In Yosemite National Park in California there is a huge monolith with a height of about 3,300 feet (about 1000 m)El Capitanthere is. Apple"Mac OS X Yosemite" announced at WWDC 2014Followed by,"El Capitan" announced at WWDC 2015This rock, which is also the original story of the name, was selected as Google's first vertical street view subject. I'm filming where the three legendary climbers climb.

Official Google Blog: Vertical Street View of the world Most iconic rock wall: Yosemite's El Capitan
http://googleblog.blogspot.jp/2015/06/vertical-street-view-of-worlds-most.html

What climbedLynn Hill, Alex Honorud, Tommy Cordwell.

On the special site you can also see the back side of shooting.

Street View Treks: - About - Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/yosemite/


What is displayed first is the boundary between the southwest wall and the southeastern wall of El Capitan used in this shoot, called "The Nose"Climbingroot. As you scroll this screen upwards ... ...


The item "THE BASE OF EL CAPITAN" appears. Click "EXPLORE" ......


We are preparing for Lynn Hill to climb at the base of El Capitan, at a height of 21 meters. Several markers are displayed on the screen, you can read the explanation by clicking.


As you further scroll, the climbing routes are gradually drawn on the map and you can see the situation at each point.


For example, "EL CAP TOWER AT NIGHT" with a height of 350 m ... ...


OnLord was doing a mail check.


From each of the "Street View Treks" scenes, you can immediately move to the corresponding street view by clicking "GOOGLE MAPS" in the lower left.


You can see that the joined code well is standing behind Oonorudo.


Lynn Hill tightly grasps the cracks of the rock with fingers and aims at the next step.


Ontoro is relaxing past the tip of "The Nose".


It is a nice place of the street view that can be seen at an angle looking down from above.


The shooting is a climb by Lynn Hill who climbed this "The Nose" for the first time by free climbing and the speed record which took off in "2 hours 33 minutes", usually "The Nose" climbing from 3 to 5 days It was said that it was done twice with climbing by Alex O'Honoro with the age.

By the way, regardless of Street View, Mac OS X El Capitan will be available for developers on Tuesday, June 23.Beta 2 (build 15 A 204 h) was pre-releasedPlace Public beta version will be released in the fall of 2015It is predicted.