Interactive Mountain Web Experiences

What works, what fails, and what is missing Overview Open a browser. Navigate to a website. A mountain appears — not as a photograph, not as a painting, but as something you can touch. Drag your finger across the trackpad and the mountain rotates. Scroll and it zooms. Click and a label appears: the name of a peak, the elevation of a pass, the date of a first ascent. This is an interactive mountain web experience: a browser-based application that lets you explore mountain terrain through gesture and response, through the continuous loop of human input and computed output that we call interactivity. ...

March 17, 2026 · 26 min · A Human-Machine Collaboration