Flight to Lukla, approaching the runway
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Lukla airport
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Lukla: Sandy, Tom, Bill
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Zopkio (yak hybrids) on the trail from Lukla
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Sandy, Ellen, and Bill on the bridge from Lukla
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Monastery, Phukding
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Welcome from the Maoists
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Joann on the trail to Phukding
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Village of Phukding
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Chutwa, Nawaong, Sandy and Joann at the monastery above Phuking
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Lodge room at Phukding
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Tom, Joann, Heather, and Pemba at the Tashi Tako Lodge, Phukding
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Bill showing a movie to his friends, trail from Phukding
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Trail from Phukding
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Lunch on the trail to Namche
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Trail to Namche
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View from the trail to Namche
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Pemba at Namche
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Namche
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Saturday Namche Bazaar
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Saturday Namche Bazaar
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Saturday Namche Bazaar
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Khumjung
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Khumjung
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Monastery in Khumjung
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Bill admiring prayer stones, Khumjung
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Stupa, trail from Namche
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Heather and Dawn, trail from Namche
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Yak at the lodge, trail from Namche
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Heather on the bridge, trail from Namche
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Tengboche
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Bill at the Monastery, Tengboche
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Footprint in the stone, monastery at Tengboche
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Monastery, Tengboche
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Monastery, Tengboche
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Heather and Sandy on the trail from Tengboche
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Our first glipse of Amadablam, trail from Tengboche
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Everest summiters, Nepali television team, trail from Tengboche
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Kami Sherpa, trail from Tengboche
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Water-powered prayer wheel, trail from Tengboche
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Trail from Tengboche
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Everest memorial, Pheriche
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Yaks, Pheriche
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Bill, Pemba, Ellen on the trail to Dingboche
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Pemba's shortcut over the wall (don't climb on the potatoes)
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View from Dingboche
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View from Dingboche
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View from Dingboche
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Dawn, Bill, Ellen on the trail to Chhukung
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Bill at the yak boy's house, trail to Chhukung
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Potato fields, trail to Chhukung
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Ellen on the trail to Chhukung
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Stupa, trail to Lobuche
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Bill and Ellen on the trail to Lobuche
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Trail to Lobuche
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View from trail to Lobuche
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Memorials to Everest climbers, trail to Lobuche
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Trail to Gorak Shep
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Yaks on the trail to Gorak Shep
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Trail to Gorak Shep
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Everest, view from the trail to Kalapathar
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Ice fall and base camp, view from the trail to Kalapathar
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Everest
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Top of Kalapathar
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Everest and the Khumbu glacier
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Nuptse
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Ice fall and base camp
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Dawn, Ellen, and Bill atop Kalapathar
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Everest
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Heather and yaks on the trail down from Kalapathar
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Sherpani and yaks on trail to base camp
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Everest view
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Bill, Ellen, and Sandy on the trail to base camp
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Rock on the glacier
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Base camp
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Sandy, Ellen, Bill, and Dawn eating apple pie at the base camp bakery
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Our tent at base camp
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Tom at base camp
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Base camp seen from the ice fall
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Ice fall
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Base camp
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Bill and Heather in the ice fall
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Joann, Dawn, Ellen, and Heather in the dining tent at base camp
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Dawa and Joann leaving base camp
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Heather on the trail from base camp
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Yaks on the trail coming down from base camp
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Yaks on the trail from base camp
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View from the trail down from Lobuche
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Yak near Pheriche
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Pheriche and trail to Dingboche
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Sunrise lodge, Orshe
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Amadablam
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Amadablam
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Purple flowers
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Amadablam
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Everest view from Tengboche
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Amadablam view from Tengboche
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Tengboche
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Tengboche, Amadablam
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Tengboche
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Porters carrying a tree trunk on the trail from Tengboche
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Yellow flowers
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View from Stupa, trail down from Tengboche
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Bill with yak dung at Sherpa museum, Namche
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Pemba at Sherpa museum, Namche
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Kitchen at Sherpa museum, Namche
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Helicopter at Sherpa museum, Namche
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Picking strawberries, trail down from Namche
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Prayer stones, trail down from Namche
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Prayer stones, trail down from Namche
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Pasang and Mingma, trail down from Namche
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Monastery in the rock, trail down from Namche
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Our porters: Ratna, Phurba, Nawong, Chakba, and Lhakpa
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Lukla airport
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Lukla airport
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Pilot reading the newspaper, flight to Kathmandu
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