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S 333 images Created 18 May 2021

S - Sherpa
Description: Sherpa culture and the geography in the Khumbu, Nepal 1980
Details: Photos captured in Nepal from 1974 to 2021 

This is part of the AlpenImage Photography Archive, a vast image collection from around the world shot by Gordon Wiltsie. For more information about this gallery, or to browse the entire archive explore our interactive database at https://www.alpenimage.com/database
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  • Yak-Khumbu, Nepal
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  • Simputi Sherpani
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  • Sherpa Yak Drivers enjoy a break with sale and butter tea.  Khumbu Region, Nepal
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  • A Sherpa yak driver loads his animal on the Mount Everest trekking trail in the Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • Phu Rita Sherpa and Sherap Jangbu in Pheriche, Nepal.  Plu Rita owned the teahouse and Sherap a Mt Travel sirdar
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  • Sherpa and yak in the Khumbu region, Nepal 1980.
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  • Sherpa guides herd a train of yaks across Nepal's Dudh Kosi River on a precarious cantilevered bridge.  This entire scene was wiped out a few years later by a massive outburst flood from a glacial lake near the base of Mount Everest.  (photo taken in 1980)
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  • Ching Futi
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  • Sherpa sirdar Sherpa Jangbu helps yak driver adjust load on dzo (yak-cattle crossbreed) carrying trekking equipment during a Mt. Travel treak, 1980.
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  • Sherpa yak herders loading hay for winder fodder, Khumbu, Nepal
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  • Yak carrying rocks for house construction in the Khumbu region, Nepal
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  • Sherpa with yaks, Khumbu Region, Nepal
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  • A Sherpa yak herder follows his animals alongside a glacier-fed lake after gathering fodder in high meadows below the Cho La Pass, near Mount Everest in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Sherpa men load a yak  with juniper firewood they have gathered under Cho La Pass near Mount Everest in Nepal's Khumbu Region.
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  • The Sherpa potato farming village of Dingboche sits high in the Khumbu Valley of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • The Sherpa potato farming village of Dingboche sits high in the Khumbu Valley of Nepal's Himalaya.  Mounts Kangtega and Thamserku tower in the background.
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  • Sherpa potato farming village of Dingboche (14,000') in Imja Khole Valley, Khumbu, Nepal.
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  • Fields surround Sherpa houses in the Khumbu Region, Nepal.
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  • A Sherpa women works in her field in Namche Bazaar.
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  • Trekkers arriving at Shangboche airfield at approx. 12,500' elevation
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  • Prayer flags and chorten frame Mounts Everest, Lhotse and Ama Dablam in Khumbu Region, Nepal.
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  • Sherpa women and a child work in their field in Namche Bazaar.
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  • Sherpa family harvesting buckwheat, Khumjung, Nepal 1980.
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  • Trekker in Khumbu region with Mt. Everest in the background, Nepal 1980.
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  • Sherpa guides herd a train of yaks across Nepal's Dudh Kosi River on a precarious cantilevered bridge.  This entire scene was wiped out a few years later by a massive outburst flood from a glacial lake near the base of Mount Everest.  (photo taken in 1980)
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  • Baruntse Peak rises above the Imja Glacier in the Khumbu region of Nepal, as viewed from Island Peak
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  • Buddhist Chortens and prayer flags along Mt. Everest trail, Khumbu, Nepal.
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  • Prayer flags and chorten with Mounts Everest, Lhotse and Amadablam in the background.  Khumbu Region, Nepal 1980.
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  • Sherpani women stand outside their house in Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.  (Dai Angdu and Ang Lakpa)
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  • Ang Lakpa Sherpani and Son in her kitchen, Namche Bazar, Nepal 1980.
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  • Sherpa family in their kitchen in Namche Bazar, Nepal 1980.
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  • Ang Lakpa Sherpani talks with her children in their kitchen in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town in Nepal's Himalaya.  (Her husband, Kancha Sherpa, was a famous trekking guide at the time [1980].)
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  • A carpenter works on a wood door in Namche Bazar, Nepal.
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  • Namdu Sherpani, famous Sherpa innkeeper in Namche Bazar, Nepal 1980.
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  • Namdu Sherpani laughs with her children in their kitchen in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Sherpa mother and son, Namche Bazar, Nepal 1980
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  • Veteran Sherpa Dawa Tenzing, who climbed on Hillary's Everest expedtion, in Namche Bazar, 1980.
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  • Sherpani teahouse in Lukla (Yangdi)
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  • A Sherpa woman (Sherpani) weaves cloth for aprons on a homemade loom at her house in Namche Bazaar, in Nepal's Khumbu region.
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  • Sherparelax by the kitchenhearth in Namche Bazaar, a leading town of Nepal's Sherpa people. (Picture taken in September, 1980.)
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  • Sherpas women (Sherpanis) shop for apples from lowland people who have carried big loads for several days to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Lowland Nepalis relax as they wait for Sherpa customers to buy goods they have carried for several days to the Saturday market at Namche Bazaar in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Sherpa Tsering Ongchu and his mother pose inside their family's kitchen in Namche Bazaar, a leading town of Nepal's Sherpa people. (Picture taken in September, 1980.)
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  • Namdu Sherpani laughs with her children in their kitchen in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Monks preparing ceremonial costumes for Mani Rimdu.
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  • Renowned Sherpa artist Kappa Khalden prepares a canvas as he works at Tengboche Monastery in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
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  • Sherpa Yak Driver
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  • A Sherpa woman (Sherpani) unties her yak after unloading it in her village of Pheriche, near the base camp for Mount Everest.  (Photo taken in 1980)
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  • Sherpa woman bargaining at weekley outdoor market, Namche Bazar, Nepal 1980 (MT Lukpa Tsering's MIL)
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  • Sherpa women stand outside of a temporary hut they set up as a teahouse along the Mount Everest trail in Lobuche, Nepal,
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  • An old Sherpa spinning wool on a mobile spindle.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. A treasured relic of Pangboche Monastery said to be a yeti scalp. (a fake, probably once a lama's hat)
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Sherpa elder Dawa Tenzing, (1907-1985), veteran of 1924 Mallory/Irvine expedition & first Nepal-side Everest expeditions. (1980 photo).
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  • Namche Bazar, Nepal, leading town of the Sherpa people. 1980
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  • Namche Bazar, Nepal, leading town of the Sherpa people. 1980
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  • Namche Bazar, Nepal, leading town of the Sherpa people. 1980
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  • Lowland farmers sell their wares at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • Lowland farmers sell their wares at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • Lowland farmers sell their wares at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • Lowland farmers sell their wares at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • A Sherpa elder at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • A Sherpa woman sells a piece of her jewelry at the Saturday market in Namche Bazar, Nepal.
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  • Sherpas men greet each other at the Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Khumbu Region. 1980
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  • Hindu men from Nepal's lower hills rest, chat and smoke after selling basketfuls of goods they have carried up to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, 1980.
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  • Sherpa villagers catch up with friends at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • Sherpas women (Sherpanis) shop for supplies from lowland people who have carried big loads for several days to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Lowland farmers sell their wares at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • Lowland farmers sell their wares at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • Sherpas at the weekly market at Namche Bazar, Khumbu Region, Nepal. 1980
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  • Sherpas women (Sherpanis) shop for supplies from lowland people who have carried big loads for several days to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.
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