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Most photographed route in the world?

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 Mike421 17 Nov 2012
It is said that Aegialis is the most photographed route in the world. This surely has to be hype and indeed a quick check in the photo gallery reveals

Dream of White Horses (81); Gargoyle Buttress 56; Strapiombo 33; Strapiombante 31;
and Aegialis a mere 27

So which is the most photographed route?
 Enty 17 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:

There's 402 images of The Nose on Supertopo.



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 jonnie3430 17 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:

Photogenic, less than VS in a popular location I would have thought? Flying Buttress at Stanage?
 jimtitt 17 Nov 2012
In reply to Enty:
Bet thereĀ“s even more pictures of the Matterhorn out there!
 jcharles 17 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:

Hillary step?
 Jim Braid 17 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:

North Face of the Eiger?
 Trangia 17 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:

Napes Needle?
 Thelongcon 18 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:

In Australia it's definitely Kachoong

http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=59136
 edinburgh_man 18 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:

Separate Reality?
 AlanLittle 18 Nov 2012
In reply to rosmat:

North Face of the Cima Grande. Postcard bought by every tourist that has ever been to the Dolomites.
OP Mike421 18 Nov 2012
The scores on the doors:
Thanks for all the suggestions. using Google image search, I get

691,000 matterhorn switzerland
209,000 The Nose, El capitan
205,000 north face of eiger

127,000 north face cima grande
the majority of the above can discounted though since they are mostly crag shots, not climbing shots

141,000 hilary step, everest

51,000 Separate Reality, Yosemite
10,500 aegialis, kalymnos
2,040 flying buttress stanage
1,520 kachoong, arapiles
1,310 Dream of white horses, gogarth
444 Gargoyle flake,bamford
418 strapadichtomy

So as far as real rock routes are concerned, it looks like Separate reality wins so far, or the hilary step if you like that big mountain stuff. Aegialis does do well though!

 john arran 18 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:

65,800 Midnight Lightning, Yosemite
 JonHarvey 18 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421: Something from the Midi? So, Cosmiques Arete, Midi-Plan, Three Monts/Tacul normal route? But i suppose they are photographed for the scenery unknowingly a lot of the time?
 JonHarvey 18 Nov 2012
In reply to JonHarvey: "Midi-Plan Traverse" gets about 783,000 results
 Mark Bull 19 Nov 2012
I think you need to take Google Image hit counts with a large pinch of salt: you can get an awful lot of false positives, even if you do the search carefully!
 handjammer 19 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421: Action Directe? Hubble?
 woolsack 19 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421: Three pebble Slab, 324,000
 Chris.Allott 19 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:
Demo Route Sennen?
In reply to woolsack:
> (In reply to Mike421) Three pebble Slab, 324,000

Shouldn't that be E0.324000?

;~))

 slacky 19 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421:
> It is said that Aegialis is the most photographed route in the world. This surely has to be hype and indeed a quick check in the photo gallery reveals
>
> Dream of White Horses (81); Gargoyle Buttress 56; Strapiombo 33; Strapiombante 31;
> and Aegialis a mere 27
>
> So which is the most photographed route?

The error is with the sample you are using to test the claim that "Aegialis is the most photographed route in the world".

Your quick analysis shows "what is the most photographed route for which people have uploaded pictures to the UKC database".

These are not one and the same thing!
 jwi 19 Nov 2012
In reply to Mike421: It's worth remembering that about ten percent of the photos ever taken have been taken in the past 12 months. Routes that have been popular to photo the last few years are all you need to consider.

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