In 2014 a team of photographers embarked on a challenging mission to photograph the tallest mountain in Europe and create the largest ever panorama image ever created (with a commercial camera). The result – a 365 Gigapixel of interactive image shows the 11’th tallest mountain in the world like never before.
Giant Gigapixel images combine tens of thousands of images into one interactive picture which capture cities and locations in unprecedented details have become quite common in recent years. In the past 5 years we have seen huge Gigapixel images of Dresden (26 Gigapixels), Paris (also 26 Gigapixels), Dubai (45 Gigapixels), Budapest (70 Gigapixels), Shanghai (272 Gigapixel) and the previous largest panorama – London (320 Gigapixels).
The current image was shot from a glacier across from Mont Blanc (White Mountain), the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest peak in Europe outside of the Caucasus range raising 4,810 meters or 15,781 feet above sea level (ranked 11th in the world).
A still image of the huge panorama of Mont Blanc (the interactive version can be found here)
In order to shoot the image a team of 5 photographers led by Italian photographer Filippo Blengini had to climb to an altitude of 3500 metres wait for two weeks in a temperature of minus 10 degrees Celsius and look for a sunny bright day and spend 35 hours shooting. During this time they shot over 70,000 images which were combined in to the giant 365 Gigapxiel panorama.
Working on the gear on top of the mountain
Shooting Mont Blanc in figures/facts:
- Hight: the pictures were taken at a hight of 3500 meters/11482 feet (Mont Blanc is 4,810 meters or 15,781 feet tall).
The photography team on the mountain
You can check out the interactive panorama image of Mont Blanc on the in2white project page.
Iddo Genuth 
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Extremely unprofessional.
Repeated fragments of postproduction are immediately eye-catching.
There are many blurred areas.
What a shame!
Mont Blanc is not the 11th highest mountain. I don’t know it’s ranking but there are over 100 mountains over 7000m and Mont Blanc is only 4810m.
It’s 11th based on topographical prominence(this is different from elevation from sea level). Prominence is measured by the distance from the summit to the lowest encircling contour line without a higher peak. The wiki for Topographical Prominence explains the concept much better than I can or care to in a comment. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peaks_by_prominence (https://www.peakbagger.com/list.aspx?lid=401)