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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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  • Pertemba Sherpa demonstrates  rappelling  at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980. Mt. Ama Dablam bkg.
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  • Pasang Onchu Sherpa learns to belay under the watchful eye of instructor Pertemba Sherpa at a mountaineering school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September, 1980
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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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  • Sundari Sherpa, one of the earliest young Sherpa Mountaineers to summit Everest multiple times.
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  • A Sherpa mother dresses her son in her kitchen in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa city of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • A young Sherpa woman (Sherpani) prepares meals for trekkers in her family's lodge in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town in Nepal's Himalaya.
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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 Sherpa woman (Sherpani) carries home big clay pots she has bought at the Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA.  Pasang, a Sherpa girl in her parents' trekking store at Khumbu Lodge in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu Region.  She became 1st Sherpa dentist (picture from 1986).
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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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  • A Sherpa yak herder harnesses his animals at Tengboche Monastery, a spiritual center for the Sherpa people of Nepal.  This picture was shot in 1986 before the monastery was destroyed in an 1989 electrical fire and subsequently rebuilt in a more modern form. Mpunt Everst rises in the background.
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  • Kancha Sherpa and his wife Ang Lakpa pose with their sons outside their house in Namche Bazaar, a leading town for the Sherpa people.
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  • A sherpa practices a Tyrolean traverse at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Pertemba Sherpa demonstrates rappelling to his colleagues at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.Mt. Ama Dablam bkg.
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  • Pertemba Sherpa teaches his colleagues advanced rope work at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Pertemba Sherpa teaches his colleagues how to belay at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Local Sherpas bargain with 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. Although most Sherpas are Tibetan Buddhists and most lowlander are Hindu, this is not a source of conflict.
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  • Sherpa veterans Mingma Mote, Pasang Kami + Ang Phurba at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.  Mt. Cholatse bkg.
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  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax  after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
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  • A sherpa practices rappelling  at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980. Mt. Ama Dablam bkg.
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  • Pasang Tenzing Sherpa practices a Tyrolean traverse at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • A sherpa practices a Tyrolean traverse at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Pertemba Sherpa teaches his colleagues how to make an ice anchor at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Ang Dyale Sherpa in his climbing harness at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of 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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  • Nuru Jangbu Sherpa (from Pangboche)  learns to rappel at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Sherpa mountaineers Ang Lakpa and Pasang (Namche) watch a demonstration at a climbing school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September, 1980.
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  • Lakpa Dorje Sherpa (Phortse) practices a Tyrolean traverse at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Nima Tsering Sherpa practices a Tyrolean traverse at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Ang Jangbu Sherpa practices belaying at   an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980. Mt. Ama Dablam bkg.
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  • Lakpa Noru Sherpa attends an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • Gordon Wiltsie teaches Kancha Sherpa how to tie knots at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Proprietors Dawa and Namdu Sherpani prepare a meal in the kitchen of Khumbu Lodge in Namche Bazaar, the leading town of Nepal's Sherpa people.
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  • A Sherpa yak herder loads his animal outside a house in Pangboche, near Mount Everest Base Camp. (Photo taken December 1979)
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  • Sherap Jangbu Sherpa poses with the supposed scalp of a yet in Pangboche gompa (temple) in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.
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  • A Sherpa guide helps an elderly trekker over the 5420m Cho La pass in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980
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  • Pasang Ongchu Sherpa prepares to climb a cliff during a mountaineering school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September 1980.
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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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  • 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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  • Namdu Sherpani laughs with her children in their kitchen in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Fields surround Sherpa houses in the Khumbu Region, Nepal.
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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 sirdar [expedition leader] Pasang Kami ties a prayer flag to a swinging bridge over the Dudh Kosi River en route to peaks near Mount Everest.
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  • Meredith Wiltsie & 3-year old son Ben are surrounded by curious Sherpa children while trekking  in the Khumbu Region of Nepal,
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  • A Sherpa cook mans the teahouse and restaurant at Tengboche Monaster in Nepal.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Ben Wiltsie, age 3 (MR) beside dzos (yak-cattle cross) at Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu Region (Sherpa). 22,494' Ama Dablam bkg. Photo shot in 1986. Monastery burned in 1989 and was rebuilt.
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  • Young Sherpa [Sherpani] women at Nepal's old Tengboche Monastery watch as young monks play (out of frame.)
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  • Crowds of farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal sell their wares at the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
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  • A Sherpa guide herds a train of yaks carrying expedition equipment down from a climbing school run near the Cho La Pass by the Eastern Sierra Himalayan Expedition in fall 1980.  Cholatse Peak in the the right background.
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  • Khunde & Khumjung (background), leading towns of the Sherpa people in Nepal's Khumbu region.  Mount Thamserku on left.  This photo was taken in 1979, before the explosion of mountaineering and trekking activity in the region.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Sherpa girls head out to gather firewood in Dramo village, Khumbu region. Note khukri knife & tumpline basket.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Dramo, a small Sherpa village between Namche Bazaar and Thami, photographed in 1979.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA.  Trekkers en route to  Mount Everest Base Camp climb "Namche Hill" out of Dudh Kosi canyon to Namche Bazaar, main Sherpa town.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
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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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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi drinks yak butter tea by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, the biggest town in Nepal's Khumbu region.
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  • Rinzing Sherpa in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.
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  • A young Sherpa stands atop a ridge in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.
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  • Sherpa Pasang Kami poses in front of the Annupurna South Face, a climb for which he was the climbing sirdar.
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  • Sherpa Pasang Kami poses in front of the Annupurna South Face, a climb for which he was the climbing sirdar.
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  • Mingma Mote Sherpa learns to rappel during a climbing school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September, 1980.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sherpa painting by artist Kappa Kalden, depicting a yeti beside Pangboche Monastery & Mount Everest, Khumbu region.
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  • Sherpa women (Sherpanis) in traditional garb talk about the annual Mani Rimdu festival they are attending at Nepal's Tengboche Monastery.  The woman on the left may be a nun and the one on the right is holding a jar with homemade, fermented barley "chung" (a possible offering.)
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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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  • A Sherpa women works in her field in Namche Bazaar.
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  • A Sherpa airline agent poses with3-year old Ben Wiltsie at Lukla airstrip in the Khumbu region of Nepal, one of the most dangerous in the world, where flights are commonly delayed or overbooked.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sherpa woman, Khumbu, Nepal.
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  • A Sherpa yak herder meets a congestion of yaks, porters and trekkers as he carries 3-year old trekker Ben Wiltsie along the Everest Base camp trail in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
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  • A Sherpa yak driver lets 3-year old Ben Wiltsie help with harnessing a yak at Tengboche Monastery in Nepal.
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  • Ben Wiltsie, an American toddler, shares baloons wtih Sherpa girls while trekking with his parents in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
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  • A tired porter stretches after carrying a big load to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya. Mount Thamserku towers in the background.
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  • Hindu men from Nepal's lower hills rest after selling basketfuls of goods they have carried up to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the Himalaya's leading Sherpa town.
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  • A young lowland Hindu woman and fellow merchants wait for buyers after carrying baskets full of goods to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi drinks yak butter tea by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, the biggest town in Nepal's Khumbu region.
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  • Sherpa women [Sherpanis] share yak butter tea by the wood stove in a house in Namche Bazaar, the leading town of Nepal's Khumbu region
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  • Lakpa Doma Sherpa presents ceremonial kata prayer scarves to 3-year old Ben Wiltsie & mother Meredith at her home in Namche Bazaar,leading town of the Khumbu region of Nepal.
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  • Meredith Wiltsie and her 3-year old son Ben relax in the kitchen of old Sherpa friends while trekking in the Khumbu Region of Nepal.
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  • A Sherpa yak driver loads his animal in Namche Bazar, leading town of the Khumbu region of Nepal.
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  • Meredith Wiltsie and her 3-year old son Ben relax in the kitchen of old Sherpa friends while trekking in the Khumbu Region of Nepal.
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  • Meredith Wiltsie and her 3-year old son Ben relax in the kitchen of old Sherpa friends while trekking in the Khumbu Region of Nepal.
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  • A Sherpa crew cooks lunch for a group of trekkers en route to Mount Everest Base Camp.
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  • Neudona, a Sherpa woman (Sherpani) carries loads for trekkers en route to Nepal's remote Hinku Valley.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Porters carry house beams to village in Khumbu, a cause of deforestation of Sherpa homeland & Sagarmatha National Park.  Mt. Thamserku bkg.
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  • Sherpa girls watch intently as village life goes on in Namche Bazaar, the leading town of Nepal's Khumbu region.
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  • A Sherpa woman herds yaks carrying trekking equipment above Namche Bazaar, the leading commmercial center of Nepal's Khumbu region.  Behind is Mount Thamserku.  (This photo was taken in 1979, before the explosion of trekking and mountaineering activity in the region.)
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  • A Sherpa guide helps an elderly trekker over the 5420m Cho La pass in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980
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  • Sherpa children stand by the trail in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
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  • A young Sherpa mountaineer learns proper belay techniques at a climbing school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September, 1980.
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  • Goats wait to be purchased at the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya. Most people pictured have carried big loads for several days up from the lowlands (probably also the source of the goats.)
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  • Sherpa women and a child work in their field in Namche Bazaar.
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  • A Sherpa man cooks at the old teahouse serving Tengboche Monastery in 1986.  Both trekkers and locals frequent his business.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Ben Wiltsie, age 3 plays with young Sherpa monks at Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu Region. Mother (Meredith Wiltsie) looks on.
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  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
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  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal admire the view after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people. Kwangde Peak rises behind.
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  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal admire the view after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people. Kwangde Peak rises behind.
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