Mont Blanc photo is the biggest in the world

Risingbd Desk: An international team led by Italian photographer Filippo Blengini has snapped the largest picture in the world - an astonishing panoramic image of Mont Blanc.

The incredible image required 35 hours of continuous shooting to capture the 70,000 pictures that make up the panorama.

The photographers climbed to 3,500 metres and endured freezing temperatures to take the picture, which would be the size of a football pitch if printed out.

It consists of about 70,000 shots amounting to a total of 46 terabytes of data, making the image nine million times larger than than a 5mb picture taken on a consumer camera.

 

That doesn`t stop adventurers coming from all over the world to tackle its breathtaking heights.

On average over 20,000 attempt to climb it annually.

Sadly many have been injured or lost their life on the peak, with about 30-70 deaths per year, according to the Climbing Mont Blanc magazine.

The panorama beats the previous image, taken of London from atop the BT Tower and is 45 gigapixels larger than the previous record-holder, a 320-gigapixel shot of London that was published back in 2013.

Nasa has a bigger 681 megapixel image of the moon, but it was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Agencies

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