Drone Over Mt Everest.

[Jacson6]

Link to tweet

[Emile]

1. Dude, that is one high drone.

[patphil]

2. Drones have transformed the way we view the earth.

Fantastic, beautiful, awe inspiring!

[Maninacan]

3. Drone shot

Can always tell drone shots in Movies. Gotta be way better than Copter or Crane.

[Biophilic]

4. My jaw has dropped open. Wow, oh, wow.

[BaronChocula]

5. Into Thinner Air

Amazing

[Fil1957]

6. I thought the air was too thin at that altitude for a prop driven drone to work.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. How do you keep the batteries powering that thing from freezing on the way up?

[msongs]

8. dont see the crowd of hundreds usually lined up waiting to summit. nt

[vanamonde]

9. My first thought as well.

Plus agree with others about battery capacity at those temperatures and rotor efficiency at that altitude.

[BlueSpot]

10. Especially this year

Not an expert or even a mountain climber but, from what I understand, there are new rules going into place next year that will sharply limit the number of unproven climbers. That means all the unprovens are showing up in great numbers this year as their final chance. The line at the Hillary Step will be huge. I expect there will be a large number of deaths this year though I hope I am wrong.

But back to the video, I suspect it is either old or AI. I don't know about batteries and how drones might (or not) fly in the thin air.

[zanana1]

11. Can a drone be programmed to go back "home"?

I can't imagine paying that much money to use it just once.