Making a 3-D model of Mt. Everest

Download the elevation data from the following website:

http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3h.html

The area around Mt. Everest is found in the datafiles:

N27E086.hgt
N27E087.hgt
N28E086.hgt
N28E087.hgt

which can be found in rows 26 and 27 and columns 86 and 87 in the big table on that website.

Now write a function that can read these data into a numpy array. Then write a function that can make a "heatmap" (image, where color = height) of this area. Plot this.

Next make a 3-D plot using the plot_surface() function of pyplot (or any other method of your choice), that you can rotate with the mouse.

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