More Everest Photos

Here's another series of photos from the Everest Trek. These are still all courtesy of Ali. I won't have mine till I get back to the states and save up enough money to develop around 14 rolls of film totalling around 450 prints.

The photo to the right is of the illustrious Ali himself. This was the day we got snowed on coming back down from Everest towards Jiri. We had gone over the 3500 meter Lamjura Pass less than an hour before this photo was taken. The smaller building in the background is where we stopped for lunch and to dry off a little.

This little dude was in the building that I just mentioned above. We first saw this guy on the way up to Everest and he was incredible. He was hanging around outside in the cold for a couple of hours totally by himself just having a great time while his mom made us lunch. He's maybe bang a rock on the ground for 45 minutes or make funny noises for example. Lunch is cooked on that wood fired stove the little dude is sitting next too. Most of our dinners on the treks were cooked on stoves just like that one in kitchens just like that one.

These two girls came out to look at the wierd tourists that walk in the mountains for no good reason at all so Casey gave them each a candy and as you can see they were terribly excited. Well, it's a little hard to discern from their faces but generally speaking the kids are excited about free candies even if their expressions are still sometimes that of horror or confusion.











In the area between Namche Bazaar and Gorak Shep we passed many amazing homes. It's well above treeline so they are nearly entirely built of stone. Stone walls, stone roofs, stone everything except for doors and windows. The firewood is carried up from as much as a few days walk away. One day on the hike down we passed at least thirty to forty people with huge bundles of firewood being hauled up the mountain on their backs.


Here's one of the many bridges we crossed on the Everest Trek as well as the Annapurna Trek. The old valleys have been dug deep and tight by the fast flowing rivers fed by snow and galciers melting high above. The bridges save a lot of time and effort but at times can be a bit sketchy. Most of them are newer steel bridges but some are still wooden planks for the base as you see in this one. The horizontal sections of wood are usually patches...