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		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/1/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: One of the many streets that look like this. Typical Katmandu



		Photographer: Cheyney Date Taken: 12/25/04 Location: Anapurna Base Camp. Description: sunrise at the center of the Anapurna sanctuary

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Small girl among the "ruins".

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Along the river and religious temples. Note the incredible hair length. Upon closer inspection the man's beard is also very long.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Ruins along one of the local streets. This eerie photograph resembles something out of the aftermath of a war zone.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Cremation of human body ceremony. Bodies were burned in locations depending on their rank in society. Once completely burned the ashes were washed into the river with milk and flowers.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Part of the National Museum located downtown.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: 11,000 feet in the Himalayas. Description: Porters carrying containers full of water. Heavy? You betcha.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Prayer stones. Description: Each of these prayer rocks are hand carved. Hundreds line the trail usually stacked with many other similar looking stones.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Namche Bazaar. Description: Prayer wheels. You are supposed to run your hand along these as you walk by.

		Photographer: Toni Artho Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: 12,000 feet up along the Everest Base Camp trek. Description: One of the lodges. Note the orange bucket which contains hot water for a short shower.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Mt. Everest. Description: Picture taken from Kala Patar an 18,250 foot mountain near Everest Base Camp.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: 10,000 feet. Description: Small lodge off the main trail.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Top of 18,300 foot Kala Patar. Description: Looking towards Everest. This photograph was taken from Kala Patar at 18,250 feet. Even though you have to look up to see the world's highest mountain, the feeling here is one of great exhilaration and absolute AWE.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Night shot taken at 16,300 feet. Description: Time exposure.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Far away shot of Mt. Everest. Description: Taken at about 10,000 feet

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Near Kala Patar. Description: Majestic Himalayan mountain peaking through the clouds.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Near Chitwan National Park. Description: Sitting Bull

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Lodge near Chitwan. Description: Taken on an early morning walk. Elephant trekking is located mere minutes away from this lodge.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Looking towards Everest from the slopes of Kala Patar. Description: Magnificent

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		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu Description: Girl on the street. One of Dave's favorite people photographs

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/6/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Staying warm on a cold morning. (burning cardboard)

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Goat with chopped off head.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Along the river. This man was naked except for the blanket wrapped around his shoulders.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Downtown Katmandu. Description: Local merchant selling beads, flowers and other trinkets.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Lucla. Description: View of the Himalayas from Lucla at 9000 feet. Word on the street is that this gravel strip has now been paved. This is the most incredible exotic starting point for a Himalayan trek.

		Photographer: Dr. David Keeling Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Near Namche Bazaar. Description: Dr. David Keeling framed this intimate shot of the trail with the pointed Ama Dablam towering white in the background.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Prayer house coving part of the trail. Description: This covered the main part of the trail

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Tengboche Monastery. Description: One of the "high points" of the Everest base camp trek

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Mt. Everest. Description: The tallest mountain in the world taken with a 600 zoom lens from 10,000 feet up.

		Photographer: Dr. David Keeling Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: 16,000 feet up. Description: Stone memorials to climbers who have perished on Mt. Everest.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: 14,000 feet. Description: Frozen stream near an arm of the Khumbu Glacier.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: 14,500 feet. Description: Author on the trail of the Everest Trek. Taken about 1 days hike from Namche Baazar.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Hiking towards 16,000 feet. Description: By this time the ground was frozen.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Katmandu. Description: Women cleaning metal vases. This women spoke 6 different languages fluently. Dave tried to bargain with her in Spanish but she spoke better Spanish than he did!

		Photographer: Dr. David Keeling Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: 15,000 feet up in the Himalayas. Description: Overlooking prayer stones erected to climbers who perished climbing Everest.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Near Chitwan National Park Description: Women carrying supplies - this is spitting distance from the border with India.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Looking towards Everest from near Kala Patar. Description: Magnificent.

		Photographer: James Bentley Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Looking towards Everest. Taken from about 18,000 feet. Description: Magnificent

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Mud hut near Chitwan National Park. Description: The footprints of a baby are smeared onto this wall in order to keep the spirits away.

		Photographer: Dave Date Taken: 12/5/97 Location: Rafting in southern Nepal. Description: Campsite on the river's edge.

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