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Images of Everest Basecamp and the Himex Expedition 2009

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Namche Bazaar, Everest Region, Solokhumbu, Nepal at night by Alex TreadwayNamche Bazaar at night © Alex Treadway

If you have 5 minutes spare that you can split into 30 seconds and 4 minutes 30 seconds, then take 30 seconds to download Alex’s amazing images from Everest basecamp this year. Click the picture or the link below and download the PDF linked to the lower left of the page. 

http://www.alextreadway.co.uk/photography.asp?sid=32&oid=360

Alex spent over a month at the camptaking pictures for his and Billi Bierling’s Everest Changes People project. 

If you are lucky, you can get the PDF to give you 4.30 of slideshow – not sure how you do it, just give it a try. If you know anyone who has been to Everest basecamp, forward them the link now. 

90 Kilograms

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This is a guy from Namche Bazaar working as a porter returning on the loose and rocky trail from Everest Base Camp with a load to take to the (helicopter) landing strip close to Namche.

One gas bottle, if completely empty, is 14.9Kg. The blue drums could weigh anything.  In total he stated the load weighed around 90Kg which is carried via a strap over the forehead. Just to watch his strained face as he put the load down, trying to keep it vertical, was painful.

This opportunity to make money comes around only so often so when it comes, however the load looks, you take it.