NEPAL

I was jarred awake by a huge explosion followed by the deafening roar of a full force hurricane that terrified me – or was it just a nightmare? I poked my head out of our tent only to get bitten by a blast of very cold air. An avalanche had calved off megatonnage of rock, ice and snow from a hanging glacier and it was cascading about 2,000 feet down a sheer rock face closeby. As the airborne spindrift subsided, the sky became velvety black once again, and it was punctuated by millions of sparkling diamonds. Whow, I remembered I was in Everest Base Camp.

Chorten near Pangboche

Cholatse near Dzongla

porters nearing Gorak Shep

Pujo Ceremony at the Khumbu Ice Fall

Phu Tashi Sherpa / Cho

Shopping in Namche Bazaar

Mother Sherpa

Yak train to Ama Dablam

Phillippe being blessed at EBC

THAMSERKU (6623M / 21,729′)

Lhotse and the shadow of Nuptse from ABC