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Kathmandu traffiic; we never saw a motor-clycle
driver without a crash helmet,
nor a passenger with one!
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 The
women were invariably smartly dressed in traditional saris or
silk trouser suits. The men equally invariably in jeans and T-shirts
or sweaters.
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Sadus (holy men) posing for Mike (for a fee)
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Mobile street vendors
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Ladies at a wedding reception in the garden
of the Yak & Yeti Hotel in Kathmandu
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Vital supplies - at the Shangri-la hotel
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Durbar Square, temples and animal "devotees"
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 A Tuk-Tuk; one up from a rickshaw (just)
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A rickshaw
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Dawn over the mountains, from Kathmandu airport
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The runway at Lukla airport
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A Nepalese woman at a large prayer wheel
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Our group at the first tea stop on the trek
in Lukla
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We met many porters with their loads
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Children in the foothills
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Peaks to the East of Namche Bazaar
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Gentian and Cotoniaster above Namche Bazaar
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The porter with my baggage - doesn't seem
too unhappy
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View back to Lukla from above Namche - we've
trekked this far already!
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Everest (far left), Lhotse and Lhotse Shar,
and Amadablam seen from Everest View Hotel.
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Silage for the cattle, going up to Namche
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Thamserku West and Central at sun-set, from
Namche Bazaar
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Everest and Lhotse from the National Park
HQ on the way out of Namche
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Villager praying during the Mani-Rhimdu festival
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Yaks (in costume, rather than working) at
Park HQ
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What a bunch of trekkers! Great backdrop though.
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Monks at the Mani-Rhimdu ritual in the monastery
at Tengboche
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Stupa, oxen, and prayer flags with Amadablam
beyond
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Ang Nimi, our Sirdar (leader guide) beside
the plaque on the stupa celebrating 50 years since the first
ascent of Everest and Tenzing Norgay and his fellow Sherpas
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Monks at the Mani-Rhimdu ritual
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Lhakpa, one of our four Sherpas.
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Peaks above the clouds on our right between
Namche and Tengboche
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Monk performing as a clown
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Monks in ritual robes dancing at the festival
in Tengboche
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Our quarters at the Tengboche tea house. Mike
emerging from our "cell"; toilet on the far right
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Winter pastures for yaks in the valley between
Tengboche and Dingboche. The stone hut in bottom centre is where
Lhakba, our Sherpa, was born.
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Stupa, stone memorials, and prayer flags in
the hills beside Tengboche
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Everest through late afternoon clouds, from
our bedroom window at Tengboche
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Girls watching the Mani-Rhimdu festival
Lamas "senior monks"watching the
ritual
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Everest and Lhotse illuminated by moonlight.
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Between Tengboche and Dingboche, Everest has
now been obscured behind the Nuptse - Lhotse
ridge. The track to Dingboche is visible on the right flank of
the slope in the centre.
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Dingboche is in the far distance
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Tawoche Peak - on our left as we approach
Dingboche.
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View from half-way up Nagartsang Peak, looking
back to Kang Tega West & East, the peaks
behind Tengboche
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The only vegetation this high on Kalar Patthar
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Oxen on the barren plain above Dingboche -
on the way to Lobuche. Kang Tega W & E beyond.
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Kang Tegas
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My highest point on Kalar Patthar, above Base
Camp. Everest is the peak that is visible.
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Prayer flags on the plateau above Duglha where
the memorials are to those who have died
on the mountains
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Memorial cairns
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Everest above the ice pinnacles (bottom)
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Everest and (bottom left) the foot of the
Western Cwm glacier
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The glacier from Base Camp down to Gorak Shep
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Cholaste Tso a glacial lake between Lobuche
and Dzonglha . Amadablam beyond.
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Yaks with herder at Lobuche, early morning.
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Amadablam and the valley leading to Dzonglha
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Monitoring use of the facilities at Dzonglha?
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Lhakpa and Ang Nimi
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Amadablam from Dzonglha at sunrise
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Part-way up the climb to the Cho-La Pass
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Nearly there! Looking back from near the top
of the Cho-La Pass. Cholaste Tso lake and Amadablam beyond
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Crossing the Cho-La Pass
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Crossing the river at Dzonglha
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The Tibetan Himalayas from the summit of Cho-La
Pass
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Kanchung Peaks on our right as we descend
from Cho-La
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Crossing the Ngozumba Glacier as the snow
starts
to fall
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Sherpa house and yaks at Dragnak
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The route between Dragnak and Gokyo across
the Ngozumba glacier
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The intrepid few setting off to climb Gokyo
Ri
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The alternative group - en route for Machermo
past the Gokyo lakes in the morning sunshine
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Relaxing in the sun and snow. Note the walls
have gaps between the stones - to let the wind safely through
without toppling the walls.
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Hamlets and terraces on the opposite slope,
with a narrow track joining them and other vallages.
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Machermo in the valley
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In the tea house at Machermo
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The ubiquitous urn of black tea
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Icicles hanging from the roof of the tea house
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Our band of porters, about to set off from
Phortse Drengka
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A Lammergeier circling over the valley at
Mong La
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A rural Nepalese cottage at Phortse Drengka.
Note no chimney so the smoke filters out through the roof
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Amadablam - that's how a mountain should look!
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Boxes of family prayers in the monastery at
Khumjung
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The shrine in the monastery at Khumjung
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Villager and son carrying turf past the prayer
wheels at the Khumjung monastery
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Alleged yeti scalp in its case in the Khumjung
monastery
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Old woman in fine coat in Khumjung
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Khumjung farmer ploughing potato field with
wooden plough pulled by oxen
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Breakfast
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Outdoor lessons for children at Khumjung Secondary
School. Statue of founder
Sir Edmund Hillary in foreground
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Yak bull
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 Porter
resting his load
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Namche Bazaar from the track down from Khumjung
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Fruit sellers
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Girl drying hair in the sun at Monzu
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Our last view of Everest through a gap in
the trees between Namche and Monzu
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Children's shoes and socks drying in the sun
near Monzu
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Young girl at Phakding tea house
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Inside Phakding tea house
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Liz and Peter in garden at Phakding
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 Julie and Mike in garden at Phakding
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Mike at lunchtime at Choplung
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Apple pie at lunch at Choplung - enough for
several of us!
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Children with a Pringles tin
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Dudhkohi valley near Lukla
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Table tennis in Lukla
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Pray as you enter
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Everest from the air
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Selling garlands in Kathmandu
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Selling dyes
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Fruit and veg stall in Kathmandu market
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Parade (one of many that day)
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Proud mother and girls
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Prayer flags festooning monatery by the "Monkey
Temple"
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Grandfather Garland
sellers
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Receptionist at Shangri-La hotel
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Flying over Afghanistan
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Township and fields in Afghanistan
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