Subject> NOVA- Alive on Everest
NOVA/PBS ONLINE Announces New Web Site
Alive On Everest:
The Story of Humans at Altitude
What
Beginning April 15th, log on to NOVA/PBS ONLINE for its latest real time
adventure, Alive On Everest at http://www.pbs.org/nova/everest. One
year
after the deadly tragedy on Everest's icy slopes, follow a team of elite
climbers as they take on Mount Everest, and track changes in team members'
bodies and minds as they approach the infamous Death Zone at 26,000
feet.
The climbing team is an experienced group, some of whom survived the
tragedy on the mountain last spring, including filmmaker David Breashears
and expert Everest climbers Ed Viesturs, Pete Athans, and Jangbu Sherpa.
The Web site will allow visitors to observe specially-designed,
high-altitude experiments administered by a physician on the climbers as
they trek from base camp to the summit.
When
The Alive On Everest Web site launches April 15, 1997 and will continue to
report in real time until the team has reached the summit and returned
safely to base camp in late May.
Where
Log on to NOVA/PBS ONLINE at:
http://www.pbs.org/nova/everest
Details
The Alive On Everest Web site features:
o Newsflashes - will provide up-to-the-minute accounts of the climbers'
progress up Everest, allowing Web surfers to accompany NOVA's team of
experts every step of the way to the summit.
o Live Science - will reveal experiments testing the climbers' limits.
Through extensive neuro-behavioral and physiological testing, Web site
visitors will gain new insights into how extreme altitude affects a
person's physiology, judgment, and decision-making skills.
o Quick Time VR - will put you on the mountain with the team as you
navigate through 360-degree images taken on the mountain. Explore Everest
almost as if you were there, seeing and reading about the Khumbu Icefall,
the Western Cwm, the Lhotse Face, and the South Col at 26,000 feet.
o E-mail - will invite visitors to the site to send questions to the
climbers. Each week selected questions and answers will be posted online
in text and RealAudio.
o Virtual Climb - will allow you to climb the Web site's "mountain" of
information to learn about this high-altitude adventure, including Everest
history and culture, anatomy of a glacier, the 1996 Everest tragedy, and
more.
NOVA Online provides a companion Web site for each week's NOVA broadcast,
program schedules, teacher guides, audience feedback, and links to related
sites. In addition, NOVA Online joins with PBS to bring you images and
reports from live expeditions around the globe. A preview of Alive on
Everest will be available beginning Tuesday, March 18, 1997 at
http://www.pbs.org/nova/everest
PBS ONLINE includes areas devoted to education and public television
programming as well as a constantly changing set of hyperlinks to current
and upcoming PBS shows. The content is updated daily, with a main feature
story highlighting programming and special events, and a combination of
special features and regular departments offering active, event-oriented
experiences. More than seventy-five national public television programs
have their own areas on PBS ONLINE. A relaunched version of PBS ONLINE
will
debut April 2.
PBS ONLINE: http://www.pbs.org
NOVA Online: http://www.pbs.org/nova
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