Mother and daughter tending to some threshing.  The Himalayan hill people live much like the Quechua of the Andes, with terraced cultivation and similar crops.

This beautiful bird, common to the the Nepal Himalayas, looks and flies like an eagle (Steve Miller may have been here before), but it is a vulture. I think it is called a lammergeier or a griffon.  There are true eagles in the region, golden eagles, common to the Everest region. There are over 800 species of birds to be found in Nepal.

One morning while Ken was doing his yoga, three young village girls passing by stopped to watch him. They were really cute just moments earlier when they tried to mimick some of his stand-up stretches.  I almost got that shot too!

There are no roads for motor vehicles in the hills. All cargo is transported by human porters or pack animals. The man at left is earning probably five dollars per day to haul about 28 kilos of fresh eggs up the mountain. The man, unladen, weighs approximately fifty kilos.

   Collette, Carmen and Ken on route to Annapurna Base Camp.  C&C are a couple of very witty actors from Virginia via New York. Collette plays a nurse on TV and Carmen co-stars in a series about glamorous young professionals at an investment bank.

Collette, Carmen
Dan, Ken

Hotel Snow Land, at Annapurna Base Camp, altitude 4100m (13,300ft).  

Carmen also plays a convincing medical patient suffering from mild altitude sickness.