Old engine being changed at Baroda
With the Chief Steward inside the Nepal Airlines flight to Kathmandu
After reching Kathmandu
View from Hotel at Kathmandu...Pashupatinath in the background
With Rajeshway...errr Maheshwar..
Nepal Army
The bottle is empty, that's the complaint!
Cockpit of the Twin Otter...our flight to Lukla
Views from the flight
Sridharji, Vishal and Sucheta
Not landing...but so close to the mountains below!
After alighting at Lulka..our plane
Porters negotiating with Sridharji
Lukla runway...1600 feet..6 degrees gradient
New Nepal...a sign of things to come..
Curious children viewing their own pics..
So true!
Ox carrying stuff...higher up...there are only Yaks
Monasteries, high in the rocks
White water rapids..
First school I saw...anywhere
Leaving from Jorsale..
Dudh Kosi river
Rescue chopper...probably heading to Pheriche or Gorakhshep
Lawrence of Arabia in the mountains!
Kangtega and Thamserku
Kongde peak
First view of Namche
Kongde ...shining bright in the morning
Crashed chopper at the Army helipad
for Pinakin...!
The horse shoe shaped Namche Bazaar
Syangboche 'airport'
Lhotse and Amadablam towards the right
Ama Dablam...can't get enough
Nuptse emerging from the clouds
Whuz taller...me or Ama Dablam?
The tip of Everest and Lhotse from a hill above Namche
With Vishal...Lhotse to the left and Ama Dablam to the right
With Vishal..Everest to the left and Lhotse to the right
The team
Count the number of mountains!
My favourite pic..
Yak scalps for sale..
Kongde and night...with manual exposure
Everest tip and Lhotse up close..
(L-R) Nuptse, Everest tip, Lhotse and Ama Dablam
Rare pic of a Himalayan mountain goat silhoutte
Ama Dablam rising over the clouds
Nepalese mountaineering team leader...on way to Ama Dablam summit
Tengboche monastery
Full moon night at Tengboche
Ama Dablam
on way to Tengboche
Sridharji competing with Ama Dablam
Another rare shot..
Nuptse, Everest tip and Lhotse en route Dingboche
Thamserku and Kangtega
Dusk at Dingboche
Lobuche peak
Tobuche and Cholache
Mountaineers on their way to the Lobuche peak...!!!
Sun setting over Nuptse (at Lobuche)
Nuptse
(L-R) Pumori (half), Listern and Lhotse (right)
Pumori (right) with Kala Patthar at its feet..
(L-R) Lhotse and Everest West Shoulder and Nuptse
Everest Base Camp...at the bottom (Khumbu Glacier is seen)
Pumori and Kala Patthar
Everest and Nuptse at dawn from en route to Kala Patthar
Lhotse to the right...at dawn
Dawn from Kala Patthar
Everest
Everest (black) and Nuptse...which looks taller!
Sun rays emerging from behind Everest and Nuptse
Pumori
Victory pic...in front of Everest
Everest Base Camp...Khumbu Ice fall and glacier visible along with Lhotse, Everest West Shoulder and Everest peak
Lhotse (left back ground), Everest base camp, Everest west shoulder and Mt Everest
Grand Pumori
Mt Everest...8850 m...Hillary step on the right slope..
Mosaic of ice on the window of or lodge
Another crashed chopper...between Lobuche and Dingboche
Nuptse...dominating the horizon
A high altitude lab..check the height
some spider..
Buddhist inscriptions
Sweet children...who posed only for a chocolate
Real close...
I can name this flower...rose!
Co Pilot Manish Shah
