An incredible 3,8 billion pixel photo has gone viral this week. It features a shot of Mount Everest – composed out of 400 individual photographs, taken by filmmaker/five-time Everest climber David Breashears.

To see what makes the above photo so special, CLICK HERE for the original version in all its glory. There you will be able to zoom in on it in amazing fashion – seeing not only the tents, but the little climbers near Camp 3.

According to Breashears, his reason for taking the image was to demonstrate climate change’s effect on the mountain. His project aims to document the current state of glaciers in the Himalayas and how the mountain and those glaciers are being affected by climate change.

Compared to 20th-century shots of the mountain, we see a lot less ice. We see less snow cover. We see much more exposed rock in nearly all of the places we visited.

[Source: Newser]