A memeber of the Google Street View project walks with the camera used to capture project footage through Nepal’s Khumbu region in April last year. Google on March 12, 2015 launched a virtual tour of Nepal’s rugged Everest region. (AFP) Google launched a virtual tour of Nepal’s Everest region allowing armchair tourists a rare glimpse of life in one of the toughest and most inaccessible places on earth. The Street View project takes viewers into the heart of the Sagarmatha national park, home to the world’s highest mountain, where icy blue rivers run below snow-capped peaks, monks play traditional music and yak-herders navigate precipitous stone-strewn trails. Armed with two single-lens tripod cameras and a 15-lens custom-built, “Trekker” unit designed for backpacks, teams travelled on foot to capture more than 45,000 panoramic images of the remote villages inhabited by the ethnic Sherpa community in the eastern Himalayas. Google worked on the project with Kathmandu-based start-up Story