In August 68 climbers joined the finisher record, which passed 400 people, and six of the eight peaks got route maps drawn from recorded GPS tracks. The operator directory began showing what each price includes, and the news section published its first posts.
August was a building month. The site was still being prepared for its opening, and 68 climbers joined the finisher record while six of the eight peaks got route maps drawn from recorded GPS tracks.
The record passed 500 finishers
68 climbers were added to the finisher record in August, which ended the month with more than 600 people who have completed one of the two lists. About 200 existing records were corrected or filled in along the way: dates, nationalities, photos and biographies.
Every finisher list now shows each climber's position. You can see at a glance who was first on a list and who was four hundredth.
Route maps from real GPS tracks
The biggest change to the guides was visual. Everest (both the north and the south route), Vinson, Elbrus, Aconcagua, Denali and Kilimanjaro got route maps, height profiles and downloadable GPX files, built from recorded ascents. Kilimanjaro's six main routes were all rebuilt in one go.
Five of those peaks also got 3D views that show the route over the real terrain, from the walk in to summit day. They sit in the route chapters of each guide, beside the text that describes the same ground.
Choosing an operator got easier
The operator directory now shows what a company's price includes, peak by peak, on all eight mountains. Each item a price covers has its own line, so two trips can be compared on what you actually get for the money.
You can put trips side by side, filter them by price in eight currencies, and filter by what is included. Each listing also shows, per peak, who guides the climb itself. A new enquiry form lets you ask a company a question straight from its page.
Take a mountain with you
Members can now carry a whole peak offline with the expedition pack, and print it as a PDF or ePub for the bottom of the duffel. Profiles and account settings got pages of their own, and signing in with Google now works alongside a password.
The Library and the old addresses
Book covers are now stored on the site itself, so they load quickly and stay put. Films and documentaries got their posters, and Harry's own guidebooks joined the Library.
Addresses from the old 7summits.com now lead to their new pages, so links that people saved years ago keep working. A contact page arrived too, with a small extra: select any text on a guide page and you can send a correction about exactly that sentence.
Guide pages and FAQs
About 75 guide pages and 13 FAQs were revised in August. Every guide page now carries a "Last updated" date that moves only when its words change, and a "Facts checked" date for the last time the page was checked against its sources.
Pictures and news
137 images were added: 100 book covers, 33 route maps and 3D views, and 4 photographs.
The news section published its first four posts. Two were about new finishers, Óscar Arroyo Úbeda on Everest and David Gray on Elbrus, and one told the story of why this site exists.
For the nerds
258 pull requests were merged in August. A pull request is one reviewed batch of changes, anything from a typo to a whole new section. The code behind the site grew from about 92,000 lines to about 190,000, and the automated tests that check it grew from about 6,000 lines to 36,000, spread over 278 test files.
At the end of August the Library held 212 books and 97 films, and the site carried 878 quotes and about 1,000 trivia questions.
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