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  • Trekkers ascend a trail below Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • 23,930' Mount Gyala Pheri is one of the highest peaks in Eastern Himalaya
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  • A glacial icefall and mountain north of the Annapurna Massif in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Annapurna II from Thorang La.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Kagbeni village & Thak Khola river, north of Annapurna.
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  • 23,930' Gyala Peri is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Himalaya.
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  • Annapurna Massif, Himalaya, Nepal. Clouds obscure a view of Mount Fang.
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  • A ski mountaineer crosses Gulol Pass, en route across the Himalaya.
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  • A Chettri caste farm woman relaxes in Nepal's Marsyandi Valley.
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  • Crops in Nepal's Pokara Valley grow in terraced fields below Annapurna IV & II.
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  • Clouds swirl around Mount Ama Dablam in the Khumbu Region.
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  • Wheat grows in a field in Nepal's Kali Gandaki Gorge.
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  • Conifers grow in the Kali Gandaki Gorge, below Nepal's Annapurna Massif.
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  • Thatched houses are surrounded by crops in a family farm in Nepal's Marsyandi River Valley, near the Annapurna massif.
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  • Villagers in Nepal's Marsyandi River Valley plow and plant rice in terraced paddies
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  • A traditional farm house is surrounded by rice paddies in the Marsandi River Valley of Nepal.
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  • A rhododendron blooms near in Nepal's Kali Gandaki Gorge.
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  • A trekker scans the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of world's deepest canyons.
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  • Gujar nomads lead their sheep & goats across a Himalayan pass in Kashmir, India.
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  • A takin lives in the Tsangpo Gorge, one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • Camped atop a 16,000+ foot pass, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta looks back at some of the gorges his team followed during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  Just hours later, on the other side of the pass, the team was caught in an avalanche and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the group finished their journey under their own power.
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  • A ski mountaineer traverses avalanche debris beside a fork of the Warwan River in India's Great Himalaya Range.  This team of three skiers, who completed the first-ever ski traverse across the Himalaya from Ladakh to Kashmir, was later caught in an avalanche themselves.  The photographer suffered two crushed vertebrae by managed to ski the rest of the way back to civilization.
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta saw a ski in half with a Swiss Army knife after its mate was buried in an avalanche that catapulted them down the cliffs behind.  Photographer Gordon Wiltsie did not yet know that he had crushed two vertebrae, but everyone knew he was seriously injured.  He was given the only remaining pair of skis in order to facilitate a self-rescue.  (This was near the end of the first-ever winter traverse across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.)
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta fashion emergency skis for a self rescue after being avalanched down the gully behind them.  Although the photographer suffered two crushed vertebrae, the team managed to successfully finish first-ever winter traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta set up an emergency camp after they and the photographer were avalanched down a gully adjacent to this cliff.  This was the first-ever winter traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir. Not knowing that he had suffered two crushed vertebrae and a knee injury Wiltsie was able to ski two more days to the first civilization.
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  • A mountaineer camps atop a 16,000+ foot pass near the end of an expedition to ski from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.  Later that day the team was avalanched over a cliff on the other side of the pass and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the team managed to finish the expedition successfully under their own power.
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  • Great Himalaya Range, Ladakh, India. Ski mountaineers begin two-week, trans-Himalaya ski tour above Panikarh in Suru Valley.
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  • SKI MOUNTAINEERING, Great Himalaya Range, India. Jay Jensen (MR) atop Gulol Pass,  during ski mountaineering expedition across Himalaya from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Allan Pietrasanta, Gordon Wiltsie & Jay Jensen camp near the summit of Gulol Pass in Kashmir, just before getting avalanched in their ski mountaineering traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta kicks steps down an icy slope above the Warwan River Gorge, during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Allan Pietrasanta & Jay Jensen encounter villagers near Pahalgam, Kashmir, after being avalanched in a ski mountaineering traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range.  The villagers could not believe that the team had crossed the mountains in winter.  (The photographer suffered crushed vertebrae in the accident, but was able to ski out himself.)
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie stumbles out of India's Great Himalaya Range after crushing two vertebrae in an avalance near the end of the first-ever ski traverse from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • A steep, cliffy gully down which Allan Pietrasanta, Jay Jensen and Gordon Wiltsie were avalanched, near the end of the first-ever winter ski traverse over India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  All survived, but Wiltsie crushed two vertebrae and - not knowing the extent of his injuries - skied out under his own power.
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  • A cliffy gully down which Gordon Wiltsie and companions were avalanched during the first-ever ski crossing of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta squeezes with two companions into a small two-person tent during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • A ski mountaineer - dwarfed by India's Great Himalaya Range - climbs out of the Warwan River Gorge as a storm approaches and avalanche danger builds.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta kicks and glides without a pack before descending into the Warwan River Gorge during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers follows a stream in the Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers crosses a stream in the Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers camp in the snowy Warwan Valley en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineers set up a camp in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range during a two-week expedition crossing the mountains from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski Mountaineers camp in the snowy Warwan Valley en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineers camp in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range during a two-week expedition crossing the mountains from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • GREAT HIMALAYA RANGE, KASHMIR, INDIA. Snowbound stream flows through Warwan Valley.
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  • Ski Mountaineers break camp amidst blowing spindrift in the snowy Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta explores around a camp below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta telemarks in powder snow below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski mountaineer Jay Jensen makes turns in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Bearing a heavy pack, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta telemarks in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers crosses Warwan pass, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers crosses Warwan pass, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir In an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Peaks of the Langtang Himalaya rise behind dormant terraceds fields in the foothills of Nepal's Himalaya.  1974
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  • A mountaineer camps atop a 16,000+ foot pass near the end of an expedition to ski from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.  Later that day the team was avalanched over a cliff on the other side of the pass and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the team managed to finish the expedition successfully under their own power.
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  • Dawn lights up a summit above Gulol Pass in the Great Himalaya Range of Kashmir, India.
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  • Using a short, thin rope, ski mountaineer AllanPietrasanta rappels from trees to tree into the Warwan River Gorge during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Great Himalaya Range, Kashmir, India. Mountaineer cross country skis around camp in Warwan Valley during two-week Himalayan crossing.
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  • Ski Mountaineers descend Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Bearing heavy packs, ski mountaineers Allan Pietrasanta and Jay Jensen descend below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A lesser known summit of India's Great Himalaya range, near Pahalgam, Kashmir, glows in a morning sunrise.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Jay Jensen telemarks in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. 27,890' (Mount) Lhotse, earth's second highest, Khumbu region.
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  • Trekkers visit the Annapurna Sanctuary in the Nepal Himalaya.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA.  American mountaineers teach a reluctant Sherpa how to do his 1st free rapel during 1980 climbing courses in Khumbu region.
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  • An unusual view of Mount Everest from the Changri La pass in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya. Also visible (L to R) are Lhotse, Makalu and Baruntse.
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  • Viewed from Annapurna Sanctuary, the sun sets on 22,943-foot Machhapuchhare Peak in the Annapurna Massif in Nepal's Himalaya Mountains.
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  • A Sherpa woman carries her grandson inPangboche Village in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Veteran Sherpa mountaineer learns to do Tyrolean traverse at 1980 climbing school in Khumbu region.
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  • in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Trekkers climb a hill in the Gokyo Valley in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya. In the background are Cholatse and Taboche peaks, the Ngozumpa Glacier and Dudh Pokhari lake.
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  • Traditional Sherpa houses crowd a hillside in Namche Bazar, leading town of the Sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya. Photo from 1979. These house have all been replaced by more modern ones.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. 6997-meter Machhapuchhare Peak above rice paddies in Pokhara Valley.
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  • Icicles hang over a stone-filled stream in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineers camp in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range during a two-week expedition crossing the mountains from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Macchapucchare Peak glows in a sunset over the Himalaya in Nepal.
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  • Village women chat along the trail in the Langtang Valley in the foothills of the Nepal Himalaya.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sherpa woman, Khumbu, Nepal.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags & 6,812 meter (22,349') Ama Dablam, Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • A young lowland Hindu boy rests after carrying a basketful of goods to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Mt. Thamserku (6,608m) Khumbu Region.
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  • Trekkers hike through subtropical rainforest in the remote Hinku Valley in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • A ytrekker sits  atop Zatr pass above Lukla in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Cho Oyu, the world's 8th highest peak reflects in a in lake in Gokyo Valley, in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Sherpas load yaks in Pangboche village in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA.  Sherpa porter & yak driver with dzos (yak/cattle crossbreeds) carrying trekking gear up trail to Mount Everest Base Camp.
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  • The Dudh Kosi River valley in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. An elderly Tibetan Buddhist couple with prayer wheel, rosaries & tourquoise & coral jewelry stands by a trail in the Manang Valley.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. 6993-meter Machhapuchhare Peak from Annapurna Sanctuary
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Young Sherpa with dzos (yak - cattle cross) carrying loads to Mount Everest, Khumbu region. 6,623m (21,729')  Thamserku bkg.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA, Incarnate lamas pray at Tibetan Buddhist Mani Rimdu festival held by Sherpas at Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu Region.
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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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  • A Nepali woman weaves on a treadle loom at her home in a in a village in the foothills of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Meredith Wiltsie (MR) in Annapurna Sanctuary, below South Face of 8,091 meter (26,545') Annapurna I, world's 10th highest peak .
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Gabelhorn Peak, Annapurna Massif (from Annapurna Sanctuary).
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Gabelhorn Peak, Annapurna Massif (from Annapurna Sanctuary).
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