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あなたは今や、世界最大の花崗岩の一枚岩に登ることができる。それも自宅のソファから。
水曜日にGoogleは、初の垂直方向のストリートビューを発表した。リン・ヒル、アレックス・ホンノルド、トミー・コールドウェルら先駆的なクライマーと一緒に、ヨセミテ国立公園（アメリカ・カリフォルニア州）にある高さ約900mの伝説的な絶壁「エル・キャピタン」に、椅子に座りながら冒険できるようになったのだ。
Macを使っている人だったら、この絶壁をよくご存じかもしれない。OSX Yosemiteの壁紙にデフォルトで入っているからだ。
「登山とは結局、不可能と思われることを気軽にやってみて、私たちの可能性の限界を広げていくことです」。コールドウェルは今回のプロジェクトを祝うブログで述べた。「エル・キャピタンの高さ900mからストリート・ビューを撮影することは、まさにその証明です。レストランの中で撮影するために作られたようなカメラを持って、世界でもっとも象徴的な岸壁に上るのです」
登山チームは、カメラを固定するロープやクライミングギアの精巧なシステムを使用して、エル・キャピタンの側面に三脚に取り付けた。そして、彼らは苦労してカメラを動かしては止めながら、「ノーズ」と「ドーンウォール」の一部で360度の写真を取った。
エル・キャピタンでは充分に冒険できない？ そんな人には、ネパールにあるエベレストのベースキャンプか、グランドキャニオンでの川下りがお勧めだ。
この記事はハフポストUS版に掲載されたものを翻訳しました。
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park(01 of20)
Half Dome (AmandaWalker, Flickr) (credit:AmandaWalker, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(02 of20)
Giant Sequoia trees in Mariposa Grove (b.e.r.n.s., Flickr) (credit:b.e.r.n.s., Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(03 of20)
Giant sequoias in Mariposa Grove (Palojono, Flickr) (credit:Palojono, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(04 of20)
Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir stand on Glacier Point. (Library of Congress) (credit:Library of Congress)
Yosemite National Park(05 of20)
Yosemite Falls. The highest falls in North America. Upper falls, 2,425 feet, lower falls, 1,430 feet.(docentjoyce, Flickr) (credit:docentjoyce, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(06 of20)
Yosemite Valley (vl8189, Flickr) (credit:vl8189, FLickr)
Yosemite National Park(07 of20)
Black Bear, Yosemite. (elliegon@gmail.com, Flickr) (credit:elliegon@gmail.com, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(08 of20)
Grizzly Giant (daveynin, Flickr) (credit:daveynin, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(09 of20)
Hikers walk through the snow at the top of Yosemite Falls. (Mulsanne, Flickr) (credit:Mulsanne, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(10 of20)
Three Brothers and the Merced River from Cathedral Beach. (bumeister1, Flickr) (credit:bumeister1, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(11 of20)
El Capitan (fortherock, Flickr) (credit:fortherock, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(12 of20)
El Capitan, Cathedral Rocks and the Merced River. (bumeister1, Flickr) (credit:bumeister1, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(13 of20)
A horse-drawn carriage passes through a tunnel in a redwood tree in Yosemite National Park, Calif. (U.S. Department of the Interior / AP) (credit:U.S. Department of the Interior / AP)
Yosemite National Park(14 of20)
Wawona Tunnel Tree, Mariposa Grove. (phil virgo, Flickr) (credit:phil virgo, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(15 of20)
Climbers on El Capitan. (D.H. Parks, Flickr) (credit:D.H. Parks, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(16 of20)
Yosemite National Park\'s Tuolumne Meadows is shown, Thursday, June 15, 2006, in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Looking east across the Tuolumne River you can see Lembert Dome and Mt. Dana. (Al Golub, AP) (credit:Al Golub, AP)
Yosemite National Park(17 of20)
WPA poster for Yosemite. (Library of Congress) (credit:Library of Congress)
Yosemite National Park(18 of20)
View of Half Dome from Glacier Point. (mhlradio, Flickr) (credit:mhlradio, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(19 of20)
Fall colors in Yosemite National Park. (dsleeter_2000, Flickr) (credit:dsleeter_2000, Flickr)
Yosemite National Park(20 of20)
The setting sun hits Horsetail Fall at just the right angle to light it up as if it\'s on fire, in Yosemite, Calif. This natural phenomena occurs for just two weeks in February and is reminiscent of the old firefall of burning embers that park employees pushed over Glacier Point to entertain guests until 1968. (Bethany Gediman, Yosemite National Park Service / AP) (credit:Bethany Gediman, Yosemite National Park Service / AP)
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