[AngeloAnolin]

Some questions:

1. Was this sponsored by DJI, which they could potentially use for any of their promotional / advertising efforts?

2. Is there a raw version? I would think that there should be more shakiness or variability in the captured footage, given the high altitude and assumption that the air flow would easily disrupt the flight of the drone.

3. What period of the year was this taken? Usually you'd hear that Mt. Everest is always packed with mountaineers, and being able to get a shot with very few people on the mountain slopes is quite uncommon.

Side note: This is a spectacular feat - man and machine.

[spookthesunset]

DJI drones are basically floating tripods. It takes a hell of a lot to make their video shake!

And yeah I have no idea how they had nobody else in the shots.

[glawre]

Regarding question 3, this would have been shot during the Spring climbing season. This year had an unusually long period of calm weather, which allowed the ~250 climbers and ~600 Sherpas to summit over the course of 12 days.

The vast majority of climbers ascend from the southeast route (from Nepal), with a smaller number ascending from the northeast (Tibetan) route. I can't tell for sure which direction the drone is flying in, but some clever piloting may have helped here.

[dmurray]

Doesn't everyone climb at the same time of day, plus or minus an hour or two? So in the morning everyone is on one part of the mountain, in the afternoon they are somewhere else and the first place is clear of people.

[landr0id]

I mean, the video is on DJI's official YouTube channel. Definitely sponsored.

[hcrean]

Regarding (2.) The gimbals on DJI drones are actually crazy good! As is the flight stabilisation and on-drone EIS. They make sub-millimetre and sub-arcsecondary orientation corrections every couple of milliseconds.

When you put these all together you find that you rarely have to stabilise footage in post.

[mschuster91]

> I would think that there should be more shakiness or variability in the captured footage, given the high altitude and assumption that the air flow would easily disrupt the flight of the drone.

Older drones like the GoPro Karma I'm flying definitely have issues there, but modern drones and gimbals are extremely smooth.

[josu]

Re 2

The camera is mounted on one of the best gimbals available. The DJI drones also do an amazing job at being stable during windy conditions. And sure, there could be some additional video editing later, but probably marginal.

[stavros]

As others said, and from personal experience, yeah, neither the camera nor the drone itself will move, even in high winds. It's amazing.