Everest Base Camp Trek 2004, Nepal Photo Gallery by Dave Collier at pbase.com

Everest Base Camp Trek 2004, Nepal

My wife , Claire, and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary by trekking from Lukla to Gorak Shep in the Nepalese Himalaya (October 2004). We were with 9 other UK trekkers, an excellent Nepalese guide (Keshar Bdr. Khadka), Sirdar (Mr Ratna) and 4 assistants (Mr Ratna's son Arjun, Furba, Tendi, and Ramesh). It was a moving experience. The scenery was spectacular and the glimpse of Sherpa life amazed us - they work so very hard to survive the harshness of the Khumbu region, and their trekking lodges kept us well fed and warm at night. We suffered a cold and mild symptoms of acute mountain sickness (AMS) but it was worth it for the overall experience. We also raised Ł1300 in sponsorship for Leukaemia Research.
Oh - and I took a great number of digital pics and slides too!

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01. View from 1st bridge, Katmandu.jpg	02. Sadhu.jpg	03. Inner city life.jpg	04. The Old and New.jpg	05. Inner city temple.jpg
06. Hairdressers.jpg	07. Marigold trader.jpg	08. Ancient fig tree.jpg	09. Palace Gates.jpg	10. Durbar square.jpg
11. Monkey God "Hanuman".jpg	12. Ornate palace decoration.jpg	13. Tantric palace decoration.jpg	14. Durbar architecture.jpg	15. Wooden screening.jpg
16. Goddess Kumari viewing windows.jpg	17. Public shrine to Lord Siva.jpg	18. Katmandu girls.jpg	19. Pushpatinath temples.jpg	20 . Tunnel vision.jpg
21. Pushpatinath cremation.jpg	22. Pushpatinath Sadhu.jpg	23. Yeti aircraft in Katmandu.jpg	24. View on Lukla flight.jpg	25. Lukla airstrip.jpg
26. Lukla girls.jpg	27. Trek beginning.jpg	28. Susbsistence farming.jpg	29. Water powered maize grinding.jpg	30. Kusum Kanguru
31. Towards Phakding.jpg	32. Mani prayer stone.jpg	33. Near Phakding.jpg	34. Prayer flags in Phakding.jpg	35. Phakding acclimatisation walk.jpg
36. Departing Phakding.jpg	37. Benkar waterfall.jpg	38. Farming in Monju.jpg	39. Life on the way to Monju.jpg	40. Rapid water.jpg
41. Looking back on Monju.jpg	42. At the entrance to Sagarmartha National Park.jpg	42. Pray you don't fall!.jpg	43. Dahlia near Phunki Tenga.jpg	44. Dudh Kosi river rapids.jpg
45. Very high bridge over Dudh Kosi.jpg	46. Hold on and walk carefully!.jpg	47. Heading towards Namche Bazaar.jpg	48. First glimpse of Everest.jpg	49. Incredible flutings of snow.jpg
50. Arrival at Namche Bazaar.jpg	51. Buddhist Stupa in Namche (below Tibetan market).jpg	52. Thamserku behind Namche.jpg	53. Tibetan trade 1.jpg	54. Tibetan trader 2.jpg
55. Tibetan trader 3.jpg	56. Tibetan trader 4.jpg	57. Namche Monastery.jpg	58. Mr Ratna above Namche.jpg	59. Kongderi seen from Namche.jpg
60 . Kongderi & Gejungkang panorama.jpg	61. Namche panorama.jpg	62. Playing girl (on way to Thamu).jpg	63. Very young porter!.jpg	64. Children near Thamu.jpg
65. Girl.jpg	66. The Boxer.jpg	67. Thamu (acclimatisation target from Namche).jpg	68. Girls in Thamu.jpg	69. Boys in Thamu.jpg
70. On way back to Namche from Thamu.jpg	71. Buddhist paintwork.jpg	72. Mani Stone & Thamserku.jpg	73. Arrival back at Namche from Thamu.jpg	74. Mount Kumbila (Holy Mountain).jpg
75. Trip profile (museum).jpg	76. Syangboche (highest airport in world!).jpg	77. Thamserku full view.jpg	78. Om Mani Padme Hum.jpg	79. Prayer wheels.jpg
80. Nuptse, Everest & Lhotse from Namche museum hill.jpg	81. Everest from Namche museum hill.jpg	82. Tantric art in museum.jpg	83. Leaving Namche behind, heading uphil to Syangboche.jpg	84. Syangboche airport.jpg
85. Nuptse, Everest, Lhotse, Peak38 & Ama Dablam.jpg	86. Nuptse.jpg	87. Everest, Lhotse, Lhotse Shar & Peak 38.jpg	88. Everest.jpg	89. 1 Scot and 6 honorary Scots at Everest View Hotel.jpg
90. Ama Dablam (Mother of Twins).jpg	91. Nuptse, on way to Kumjung.jpg	92. Arriving at Kumjung.jpg	93. Kumjung bakery lunch stop.jpg	94. Kumjung lady sowing seed.jpg
95. Saddle.jpg	96. Outpatients at Kunde Hospital.jpg	97. Sir Edmund Hilary's Kumjung School.jpg	98. Walk up from Kumjung to Kunde Hospital.jpg	99. Buddhist scriptures (Kyangjuma).tif
100. stove in Kyangjuma (Ama Dablam Lodge).tif	101. Yak butter candle holders.tif	102. Inside Ama Dablam Lodge at Kyangjuma.tif	103. Sunrise on Everest.tif	104. Sunrise on Nuptse.tif
105. Sunrise on Everest and Lhotse.tif	106. Sunrise on Lhotse.tif	107. Nuptse early morning.tif	108. Spindrift on Lhotse Shar.tif	109. Sunrise complete.tif
110. Tyangboche monastery.tif	111. Tyangboche Stupa.tif	112. Looking back from Tyangboche to Kyangjuma & Namche.tif	113. Tynagboche Monastery entrance gate.tif	114. Ama Dablam peak.tif
115. Tyangboche view of storm on Everest.tif	116. Deboche night time view.tif	Ama Dablam at Night	117. Moonlight over Deboche.tif	118. Walk from Deboche to Dingboche.tif
119. En route to Dingboche.tif	120. Everest in the Jet stream.tif	121. Imja Khola river.tif	122. Ama Dablam peak on way to Dingboche.tif	123. Nearing Dingboche.tif
124. Arrival at Dingboche.tif	125. Moon and mist on Ama Dablam.tif	126. Ama Dablam from Dingboche Peaceful Lodge, dusk.tif	127. Ama Dablam from Dingboche at night time.tif	128. Tawoche and Chalotse from Dingboche at night time.tif
129. Tawoche, looking like it will topple over.tif	130. Lhotse from Dingboche at night time, close up.tif	131. Lhotse at night time, far away.tif	132. Bright start to Chhukung acclimatisation walk day.tif	133. Tea break on way up to Chhukung.tif
134. Spindrift on Lhotse.tif	135. Amazing ice on Amphu Gyabgen.tif	136. Ice flutings on Amphu Gyabgen.tif	137. Amphu Gyabgen.tif	138. Lhotse on way to Chhukung.tif
139. Back of Ama Dablam.jpg	140. Claire and Dave at Chhukung.jpg	141. Ice formations.jpg	142. Chhukung panorama.jpg	143. Ice and glacier melt.jpg
Stupa above Dingboche	144. Taking a break at Chhukung.jpg	145. Stupa on hill at Dingboche.jpg	146. Leaving Dingboche to reach Lobuche.jpg	147. Heading for Lobuche (via Thukla).jpg
148. Tawoche and Chalotse.jpg	149. Huts opposite Tawoche and Chalotse.jpg	150. Tawoche close up.jpg	151. Lunchbreak at Thukla on way to Lobuche.jpg	Tawoche.tif
152. Leaving Thukla behind, Lobuche in our sites.jpg	Chalatse.jpg	153. Lost climbers monument plateau.jpg	154. Way forward to Lobuche.jpg	155. Lost Climber monuments II.jpg
156. Rest their souls.jpg	157. Chortens commemorating lost Sherpas.jpg	158. Looking down from chortens.jpg	159. En route to Lobuche panorama.jpg	160. Palatial luxury at Lobuche Eco Lodge!.jpg
161. Furba, Tendi and Arjun.jpg	162. Looking backwards on our way to Gorak Shep.jpg	163. First glimpse of Pumori.jpg	164. Water-filled crevace on Khumbu glacier, heading to Gorak Shep.jpg	165. Khumbu live and unplugged - the glacier, heading for Gorak Shep.jpg
166. Pumori looking over Kala Pattar.jpg	167. Lunchtime arrival at Gorak Shep, prep for assault on Base Camp!.jpg	168. Nuptse behind Gorak Shep glacial lake.jpg	169. Gorak Shep sand basin, heading for Base Camp.jpg	170. Nuptse rules OK.jpg
171. Khumbu glacier in foreground, Khumbutse in background.jpg	172. First glimpse of Everest behind Lhotse, on way to Base Camp.jpg	173. Khumbu glacier below us seen from ridge.jpg	174. Scary hole in glacier - one way ticket!.jpg	175. Walk down there - surely not.jpg
176. Long ridge walk to Base Camp.jpg	177. stitched Nuptse II panorama.jpg	178. stitched Nuptse panorama.jpg	179. Best stitched Nuptse 3 f.jpg	180. View of Khumbu icefall (Everest nesting above).jpg
181. Icefall closer up.jpg	182. icefall 2.jpg	Helicopter wreckage at Everest Base Camp.jpg	183. Claire at Everest Base Camp.jpg	184. Dead end - HALT!.jpg
185. Realm of rock and ice.jpg	186. Dave and Claire at EBC.jpg	187. Flapping prayer flags at EBC.jpg	188. Paul at EBC - well done mate!.jpg	189. Keshar's trekkers ROCK (EBC Oct04).jpg
189. Paul (far right), crashed helicopter and the desert that is EBC.jpg	190. Fancy camping here.jpg	191. Or shall we camp here.jpg	192. Am I dreaming.jpg	193. An improbable balancing act.jpg
194. Maybe we're not supposed to be here.jpg	195. Icicles.jpg	196. Back on the ridge, Edelweiss.jpg	197. Late afternoon clouds roll in on Nuptse.jpg	198. Time to head back before it gets too cloudy and dark!.jpg
199. Arrival back at Gorak Shep, JUST IN TIME for sundown.jpg	200. Nuptse at night screen backdrop.jpg	Nuptse at night	201. Kala Pattar & Pumori at night time from Gorak Shep.jpg	203. The 7 Sisters constellation.jpg
View of Pumori from Gorak Shep at night time	204. At the start of Kala Pattar, what a slog!.jpg	205. Pumori looming above Kala Pattar.jpg	206. First glimpses of Everest on way up Kala Pattar.jpg	207. Half way up Kala Pattar, looking down on Pumori base camp.jpg
208. Everest and Nuptse from Kala Pattar.jpg	209. Claire near Kala Pattar summit.jpg	210. Everest and Nuptse - why we came!.jpg	Chomolungma aka Sagarmatha (Everest)	South West face of Everest.jpg
212. This is the view we came for folks.jpg	Wife and I on Kala Pattar	214. Prayer flags on way down (windy!) Kala Pattar.jpg	215. View on way down, still awesome!.jpg	216. Gorak Shep seen below.jpg
217. Our Yaks in Lobuche.jpg	218. John between Lobuche and Pheriche - arch-dude!.jpg	219. My beloved Claire happy to be descending to denser air.jpg	220. Monument to dead Everest climbers, Pheriche hospital.jpg	221. Snow in Deboche.jpg
222. Beautiful morning to walk from Deboche to Monju.jpg	223. Last fariwell to Deboche.jpg	224. Looking back from Tyangboche.jpg	225. Tyangboche Monastery entrance.jpg	226. Your name's not on the list, you're not coming in!!.jpg
227. Farewell to Tyangboche.jpg	228. Ama Dablam in the distance.jpg	229. Thamserku.jpg	230. On our way from Tyangboche to Namche Bazar.jpg	231. Claire, Cathy and Gail - Yak Man's Angels.jpg
232. Gentians.jpg	233. Cathy striking a cool pose.jpg	234. Yak train coming - give way.jpg	235. Poisonous plant used as an antiseptic.jpg	236. Sherpa porters cooking their lunch.jpg
237. Sherpa people washing veg outdoors in Namche.jpg	238. Tibetan trader market, Namche.jpg	239. Heading downhill in Namche towards Stupa and exit.jpg	240. Namche buildings to our right as we leave.jpg	241. Namche Stupa prayer wheels.jpg
242. Solitary Holy Man (Sadhu) crossing.jpg	243. Claire loves bridges - honest!.jpg	244. Furba, Yakman and Tendi in Monju.jpg	245. For Gail, Cath and Claire - Mr Yakman.jpg	246. Lukla street scene.jpg
247. Children playing in Lukla.jpg	248. Lukla street scene II.jpg	249. Arjun the shove happeny champion.jpg	250. Our last night with Yakman, Tendi, Furba, Ratna, Ramesh and Arjun - our Brothers!!.jpg	251. The Honorary Scottish shove happeny team.jpg
252. Sue, go girl go!.jpg	253. Keshar concentrating hard.jpg	254. The Scot beat the Sassenachs.jpg	255. Ramesh proves his contortion and balance abilities.jpg	256. Last view of Kongderi from Lukla airstrip.jpg
257. The Brocken Spectre of our 16 seater aircraft.jpg	258. Back in Katmandu.jpg	259. Tourist souvenirs.jpg	260. Buddha statue within Bodnath.jpg	261. World's largest stupa, Bodnath (Little Tibet).jpg
262. Keep walking clockwise whatever you do.jpg	263. Close up, Bodnath.jpg	264. Buddhist pilgrims spinning the prayer wheels.jpg	265. Another view of Bodnath.jpg	266. Endangered species crossing near Palace.jpg
267. Last night out in Katmandu with Keshar.jpg	268. Keshar - our thanks to you, mate!.jpg	269. Our Footprint at Rum Doodle.jpg	IMG_2998.jpg	Pashupatinath - Lingam

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Liz Cameron		01-Jun-2008 15:09
Hi Dave, You have done a wonderful with the gallery. My boyfriend and i got engaged on the Everest trek last October. We got vivid memories while going through your website. We are getting married this October. Oour trek was booked with Responsible Adventures run by Raj Tamang. The services, staff and food provided by them was cleary unparelled. We would like all future trekkers to the himalayas use the services of Responsible Adventures. Their website is www.notjusttreks.com

Dick Lowthian		10-Jan-2008 21:51
This is a gallery of beautiful images, Dave. Well done, v

wandertheglobe		16-Nov-2007 08:06
Night shots are fantastic!

Eldar Kadymov		16-Apr-2007 13:58
I cannot even comment on this gallery for the lack of proper wording, just starring in awe... V

Catherine Kagen		07-Apr-2007 19:16
What a journey! I put this on slideshow and was right there with you and Claire... Incredible documentation of your trek and for the fight against Leukemia nonetheless. Bravo--fantastic job and shots! :) Thank you so much for sharing.

Monte Dodge		27-Feb-2007 15:58
Greatr Gallery!!! Voted and thank you for sharing!!!

Jason Ankers		21-Jan-2007 13:30
amazing thanks for sharing must have been an amazing experience. Love the shots of everest. V.

Kerry Mitchell		12-Jan-2007 21:33
What an amazing trip. Happy Anniversary!

dave123		24-May-2006 18:28
Amazing shots, makes my day trips look very 'safe'

AMP		11-Mar-2006 11:14
great gallery! I see lots of places and images I remember! I'm back off there later this year to have a shot at Ama Dablam. Looking forward to it!

Wendy		26-Jan-2006 22:49
Thank-you for sharing the wonderful pictures of your journey........plus the very worthy money raised for Leukaemia research!

Mitch		25-Jan-2006 14:16
Mouth watering scenery and great photo's.

natalitsa		19-Jan-2006 21:10
Wonderful gallery of great photos wow :)

Balaceanu Cristian		17-Dec-2005 23:55
Hy I m Christian from Romania , my greatest hobby are mountains from Khumbu Region in special Myolangsangma , I will send you one photo with me and my books to see the biggest passion from the world .I visited your site but you pictures are small aren't big , in rest are beauty and wonderfull .

Todd Walker		13-Nov-2004 17:49
What a fantastic gallery! Looks like an amazing, once in a lifetime experience. Thanks for sharing the beauty of your journey.

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