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  • 23,930' Mount Gyala Pheri is one of the highest peaks in Eastern Himalaya
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  • Trekkers ascend a trail below Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Annapurna II from Thorang La.
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  • 23,930' Gyala Peri is one of the highest peaks in the 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. Kagbeni village & Thak Khola river, north of Annapurna.
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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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  • Wheat grows in a field in Nepal's Kali Gandaki Gorge.
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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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  • Conifers grow in the Kali Gandaki Gorge, below Nepal's Annapurna Massif.
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  • A rhododendron blooms near in Nepal's Kali Gandaki Gorge.
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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 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A lesser known summit of India's Great Himalaya range, near Pahalgam, Kashmir, glows in a morning sunrise.
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  • Dawn lights up a summit above Gulol Pass in the Great Himalaya Range of Kashmir, India.
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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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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. 27,890' (Mount) Lhotse, earth's second highest, Khumbu region.
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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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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Firewood and barley dry on roof tops in Marpha, an ancient trading village on a salt trading route through the Kali Gandaki gorge between Annapurna & Dhaulagiri.
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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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  • in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Macchapucchare Peak glows in a sunset over the Himalaya in Nepal.
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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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  • 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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  • 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. Gabelhorn Peak, Annapurna Massif (from Annapurna Sanctuary).
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  • Sherpa cooks prepare a meal in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Yaks carrying loads for trekkers pass through potato fieldsin Machhermo village in the Gokyo Valley in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • The Himalaya tower over huts and houses in the upper Langtang Valley, 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. 6011 meter Kwangde Ri & houses in Namche Bazaar, leading town of Sherpas, Khumbu Region. Much growth has occured since this photo was taken in 1986.
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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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  • A sunset glows on Mount Everest and Nuptse in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • The summit of Mount Everest rises behind a ridge of Nuptse in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • A trekker ascend a hill called Kala Patar for a view of Mounts Everest and Nuptse in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • A glacier and mountains above the Cho La pass in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Ama Dablam rises behind Dzongla meadows in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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