How tall do you think The Throat of the World is (in feet) : V

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:45 pm

I think it's some what small in compairison to MT. Everest.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:02 pm

Considering a capital city is just 3 blocks worth, I'd say Throat of the World is pretty much on par with Everest

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:57 am

Half the size of Red Mountain, Everest is a good estimation for Throat.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:47 pm

900-1000 feet

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:04 pm

I think some of you seriously under estimate how tall Mt.Everest is..

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:44 am

I'm guessing 600-800 feet.

I think some of you seriously under estimate how tall Mt.Everest is..

You mean you can't run to the top of Everest in 2.5 minutes????

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:03 am

Judging from the look from the top, I'd say it isn't much taller than 10x the height of Whiterun. If that.

The tallest point in Whiterun seems to be about 45 feet from the ground, but also about 90 feet elevated from the surrounding terrain.

I'd say that the TotW can't be much more than 1000 feet, then.

(Puny, as mountains go.)

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:09 pm

I live in a country without any real mountains, so the highest thing I've climbed is about 3600ft. TotW is about half that at best. It's a bit misleading though, as the view down doesn't correlate well with the height climbed due to the wide-angle view effect. The view down looks more like about 2000ft. For comparison, this is the view from about 2500ft, but zoomed a bit:

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» Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:29 am

I'd say about 2000m at the most

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:12 pm

From Sea Level, the Throat of the world is actually almost a mile (Real Mile) high. From Ivarastead (Where most people seem to begin counting) it's about 3/8 of a mile. If you don't Measure Everest from Sea Level, it maintains about the same ratio from the highest livable settlement.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:36 am

I'm guessing 600-800 feet.
You mean you can't run to the top of Everest in 2.5 minutes????

Everest doesn't have finely-chiseled steps for people to climb upon...

Anyway, I estimate the TotW to be, taking into account the 7000 steps being approx. 5 inches tall, with around 100 or so leading downward and around 500 feet of no-stairs slope: roughly 3000-3500 feet tall. Give or take a few hundred.

This is taken to scale the down-sized scale of Skyrim. If it (Skyrim the game) was in the same style as Daggerfall with 2 weeks required to cross the map, I'd imagine it would be 20,000+ feet tall (~6500 meters)

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:40 am

Everest doesn't have finely-chiseled steps for people to climb upon...

Anyway, I estimate the TotW to be, taking into account the 7000 steps being approx. 5 inches tall, with around 100 or so leading downward and around 500 feet of no-stairs slope: roughly 3000-3500 feet tall. Give or take a few hundred.

This is taken to scale the down-sized scale of Skyrim. If it (Skyrim the game) was in the same style as Daggerfall with 2 weeks required to cross the map, I'd imagine it would be 20,000+ feet tall (~6500 meters)

^ I'm gonna agree with that one.

Please.. the highest point in my "flat" state of Florida is 345 ft above mean sea level. It doesn't help that when you look at the mt's they look huge, then when you go to climb them, they take no time at all. Also it might be confusing because we have the images of looking from the top of Everest and seeing cloud cover below "us", which I would imagine is pretty hard to do in a game and get it correct every time you climb up and down a mt.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:51 pm

And So it was revealed to us that the active community spend their time when not enjoying skyrim, measuring pixelated mountains.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:07 pm

And So it was revealed to us that the active community spend their time when not enjoying skyrim, measuring pixelated mountains.

You say that like it's a bad thing?

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:03 pm

I think some of you seriously under estimate how tall Mt.Everest is..

lol! no doubt.

i'll say 7K.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:42 pm

Schwarzwald-ish, maybe?
Just a guess.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:16 am

Close to just over 9000 foot high.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:54 pm

7,000 steps. Lets just say each step is 2 feet tall (which they are not).
14,000 feet + 2,000 unaccounted for.
16,000ft.
And everest is 29,000ft.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:04 pm

You cannot forget that the continent of Skyrim has been massively scaled down so the map would fit on a single disc and so that it wouldn't take them 10 years to build the map with today's graphics. Whiterun in lore is much, much bigger than in the game and has thousands of citizens, not dozens. I'd say in reality that the Throat of the World has to be as tall as Mt. Everest at minimum.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:19 pm

You cannot forget that the continent of Skyrim has been massively scaled down so the map would fit on a single disc and so that it wouldn't take them 10 years to build the map with today's graphics. Whiterun in lore is much, much bigger than in the game and has thousands of citizens, not dozens. I'd say in reality that the Throat of the World has to be as tall as Mt. Everest at minimum.

Agreed, this is a view from the CN tower http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:View_from_cn_tower_skydeck.jpg which is 1815ft tall, when you try and look at Whierun from the Throat of the world you can just see it so I guess it's at least as high as Mt everest.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:01 pm

I'm guessing 600-800 feet.
You mean you can't run to the top of Everest in 2.5 minutes????

You can't even call it a mountain at the hight it is. It's more like a big hill. It's around 1000m for a mountain, or 3200ft and it definitely isn't high.

Agreed, this is a view from the CN tower http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:View_from_cn_tower_skydeck.jpg which is 1815ft tall, when you try and look at Whierun from the Throat of the world you can just see it so I guess it's at least as high as Mt everest.

Not sure. Everest is 30,000 feet. That is what most passenger planes cruise at. It is a long way above the cloud line.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:42 pm

Everest doesn't have finely-chiseled steps for people to climb upon...

Anyway, I estimate the TotW to be, taking into account the 7000 steps being approx. 5 inches tall, with around 100 or so leading downward and around 500 feet of no-stairs slope: roughly 3000-3500 feet tall. Give or take a few hundred.

This is taken to scale the down-sized scale of Skyrim. If it (Skyrim the game) was in the same style as Daggerfall with 2 weeks required to cross the map, I'd imagine it would be 20,000+ feet tall (~6500 meters)

I'd say it's 1,400 feet in game. You have to take into account that the stairs don't go straight up. The steps circle around the mountain so that isn't really an indicator.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:52 am

Basically guys to walk up stairs on everest comparartively you would have 36,300 steps if they went up vertically. If it was like the throat of the world it would be more like 70,000+ steps so no it is not the size of everest.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:35 pm

Agreed, this is a view from the CN tower http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:View_from_cn_tower_skydeck.jpg which is 1815ft tall, when you try and look at Whierun from the Throat of the world you can just see it so I guess it's at least as high as Mt everest.

That will be partly due to draw distance.

» Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:42 am

There aren't actually 7,000 steps up the TotW, are there? I bet there are no more than 200-300, tops.