Entries tagged with expeditions - Channel 10

Geeks on Peaks - Microsoft Mount Logan Climb

Jeff — Sat, 05 May 2007 18:42:00 GMT

I just received an email from Larry Larsen who is on his way to Mount Logan to begin our coverage of Geeks On Peaks. Larry has just checked into Whitehorse, Canada on his way to the base camp for the climb.

For this expedition our plan was to use all consumer-level gear for the technology. Ideally, the main computer for the climb was going to be an OQO2. The problem is that hard drive heads tend to lie down on the platters after 10,000 feet. So by 19,551 feet the computer might be worthless. So instead we're using a Sony Vaio UX, the new handheld micro-computer, loaned to us by the UMPC team at Microsoft. The nice thing about the Sony UX is that it doesn't have a hard drive. It uses a 32GB flash drive instead.

You can follow along over on Summits of Canada via Live Maps and Larry will be uploading coverage as soon as possible.

Good luck Larry and be safe!

Geeks on Peaks: Mt. Logan and Live Search Maps

Barnaby_Jeans — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:24:07 GMT

As the Canadian guy on the on10 team I'm excited to have on10 as part of this great expedition happening right here in Canada. Larry has a great video interview with James Coleridge talking about the upcoming expedition to Mt. Logan and the technology that they will be using. Larry mentions Live Search Maps in the interview, so with nothing more than your browser you will be able to follow the climb at http://www.summitsofcanada.ca/canatrek/expedition/followtheclimbs.html and http://www.summitsofcanada.ca/canatrek/expedition/FTC/Frameset-VE.htm.

So sit back, relax, watch the introductory video (fly the route) and then take a look at the planned route and track the expedition once they set off.

Lastly, if you want to learn how to build these types of maps into your website, take a look at the Virtual Earth interactive SDK at http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ to see exactly what code you need to insert into your webpage. I got this up and running on my website relatively quickly, so think about how you might add this to your website.

Geeks on Peaks: Tech expedition of Mt. Logan

Larry — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:02:00 GMT

Channel 10, in conjunction with Summits of Canada, is sponsoring an expedition to summit Mount Logan in early May. During the month-long trek, James Coleridge will document, blog, shoot pictures, and do video interviews from the second highest peak in North America.

I'll be joining the group until the half way mark, two miles above sea level, at which point I will turn and run for the nearest fireplace, but we'll be following them here on Channel 10 during the whole month of May. You can follow along too, watching the group progress on a dynamic Live Search map and catching the live interviews or photo galleries.