Mt. Whitney: follow up

We've discovered something very interesting about the light recordings we made at the Summit of Mt. Fuji. The light is even more unique than we had anticipated and reproduces very well with the Telelumen LED Luminaire. Because we are curious about the surprising attributes, we are mounting a quick expedition to the Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the 48 United States at 14505 feet (4421 m).
From several points up the East face of Mt. Whitney, we will collect spectrographic and irradiance data for direct Sun, Full sky and the northern sky. With this corroborating data, we will be able to identify and highlight the uniqueness of the Mt. Fuji Sunrise recordings.
The trek up Mt. Whitney is 22 miles round trip, departing before sunrise, we will return by nightfall.

Sunset Seranade

Most of the people who visit the summit of Mt. Fuji do so for the sunrise or perhaps late morning so they can climb back down during daylight. Consequently, later in the day and at night, the summit is a place of solitude.
On the second evening, when the day's recording was finishing and preparations were to be made for the next day, this boy was serenading the sunset from a perch on the Fuji monument pedastle.
It was quite a beautiful moment and a fitting end to a day of majestic Fuji daylight. .

Fuji base here, Telelument Station is GO

After traversing the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese railway system and finally the slopes of Mt. Fuji itself, Telelumen's spectroscopic recording station was established on July 13 near the Kusushi Shrine on the northern edge of Fuji Crater.

From the recordings taken over the next three days, Telelumen will be able to produce light scripts derived from one of the most interesting and symbolic vantages on Earth.

Aside from the enjoyment of our successful recordings, the expedition met quite interesting people at the summit. Among them the most ardent mountain biker you will ever meet, a practitioner of extreme ironing and a many who had climbed Mt. Fuji ten times and only this first time seen the sunrise with good weather (Humbly, we had three perfect consecutive sunrises.) According to the weather forecast, the Summit of Fuji will be cloaked in rain for the next week.
Many other visitors to the Telelumen Station enjoyed what must have been an unexpected preview of advanced LED lighting technology on the rim of the "fire mouth". We look forward to keeping in touch with our new friends and their interest to "be the first one to have it"

Our thanks to Robin Lawrenz of Fujiyoshido City Hall and the good people operating the high altitude huts of Goriko-kan Station 8.5 and Yamaguchia at the summit. Your constant help and hospitality made the human element of this expedition's toil into a delight.

Weather Permitting

Well, you can never predict what the weather is going to do, but for now, we have a pretty good outlook. Rain showers are always a possibility on Mt. Fuji. I'd like to be greedy and hope for perfect weather all four days, but for now, the forecast is for clear on Thursday and Friday, the recording days, which is terrific. However, rain showers are forecast for the climb up and the climb back down.
We'll see what tomorrow holds.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Mount-Fuji/6day/top

Why Fuji?

The same Sun shines down everywhere in the world. On any given day, each of us experiences a different mix of light from hour to hour.
So why is Telelumen mountain an expedition to the summit of Mt. Fuji to collect simple daylight?

Because light has meaning.

For the people of Japan, to behold the spiritual light of Sunrise from the top of Mt. Fuji is a pilgrimage that every Japanese person aspires to. All around the world, Japan is known as "The Land of the Rising Sun".

So, as Telelumen ushers in the new era of rich, dynamic, meaningful light for everyone, we will harness that symbolic light from the vantage point that begins the Word's day. We go to gather light with a meaning that we can all understand and be energized by.

We thank the many who have contributed to this project. Without the specialized equipment and advanced technology that has been made available to us, this expedition would not be possible.

The Meaning of Light

For millions of years, we have enjoyed life bathing in the rich, dynamic light of daytime. In all of its forms from Sunlight to Moonlight, dawn, dusk, campfires and candlelight, light is a foundation of life itself. It's only very recently that we have added electric light to fill the darkness of night time and the new indoors.

But that artificial light, while useful, is imperfect.
Important colors are absent from standard indoor lighting. We wonder if material is black or blue. We cringe at the ashen faces of cubicle bound coworkers. The never changing monotonic light makes us wonder what time it is outside, in the real world.

Telelumen is creating a new system of lighting: Rich, dynamic and meaningful.
The light of the outdoors can now be recorded and played back in high fidelity, bringing the light we crave into the darkness and indoors, to again enrich our lives as it is meant to.