
It is the biggest photograph ever created.

An international team led by Italian photographer Filippo Blengini has published a gigantic panorama of Mont Blanc.

The incredible image required 35 hours of continuous shooting to capture the 70,000 pictures that make up the panorama.

Use your mouse to navigate around the image and scroll down for video of how it was created

The incredible image required 35 hours of continuous shooting to capture the 70,000 pictures that make up the 365 gigapixels panorama

Italian photographer Filippo Blengini said the in2white project was inspired by the mountain itself.

'We just wished to represent it as it shows to our eyes : major beauty, astonishing magnitude, pure elation,' he said.

HOW THEY DID IT The five-strong team spent two weeks in late 2014 at an altitude of 3500 metres (11,500 feet) enduring -10°C temperatures. Using a Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 II IS, a Canon 70D DSLR and a Canon Extender 2X III on a special robotic mount, they captured 70,000 photographs in every direction over 35 hours of shooting. Post-processing and stitching the 46 terabytes afterwards took two months, and the resulting image would be as large as a football pitch if printed out at 300dpi. Advertisement

'We were brave, crazy and ambitious enough to think about a gigapanoramic picture, to seize every single detail of the mountain.'

The five-strong team spent two weeks in late 2014 at an altitude of 3500 metres (11,500 feet) enduring -10°C temperatures.

Using a Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 II IS, a Canon 70D DSLR and a Canon Extender 2X III on a special robotic mount, they captured 70,000 photographs in every direction over 35 hours of shooting.

The project also plans to return to the area and add two more panoramas from different angles.

It will also allow users to add climbing tracks to the image, and even allow climbers to identify themselves in it.

'We wish to carry on our experience about the Mount Blanc, offering you more features and enthusiastic vision,' the team said.

Post-processing and stitching the 46 terabytes afterwards took two months, and the resulting image would be as large as a football pitch if printed out at 300dpi.

The photographers worked with Canon, Sandisk and other technical firms to complete the image, using robotic mounts to automatically capture the shots to be stitched together.

The full image: The five-strong team spent two weeks in late 2014 at an altitude of 3500 metres (11,500 feet) enduring -10°C temperatures.

Zooming in on the image allows individual climbers to be spotted, and even cable cars travelling across the mountain

With peaks of 5,000 metres high and top wind speeds on the peak reaching 95kmph it is not surprising that Mont Blanc is one of the most dangerous spot for hikers.

That doesn't stop adventurers coming from all over the world to tackle its breathtaking heights.

On average over 20,000 attempt to climb it annually.

Did you spot this? The mountain complex with cable cars connected to it is almost impossible to see on the original image

Sadly many have been injured or lost their life on the peak, with about 30-70 deaths per year, according to the Climbing Mont Blanc magazine.

The panorama beats the previous image, taken of London from atop the BT Tower and is 45 gigapixels larger than the previous record-holder, a 320-gigapixel shot of London that was published back in 2013.

Nasa has a bigger 681 megapixel image of the moon, but it was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.