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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 rests after carrying a basketful of goods to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.  Behind her is a huge mani stone carved with Tibetan Buddhist prayers.
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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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  • 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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  • Sherpa women (Sherpanis) carry big loads for trekkers en route to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal's Himalaya.
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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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  • 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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  • An elderly Chilean huaso (cowboy) relaxes by a road near Cochrane, in Patagonia.
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  • Residents of Mirpur Destitute camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, carry mud from a pond they are digging as a place to raise fish and establish a communal protein source.  This project was funded by Food For the Hungry in 1977.  Woman on left is Amina Khatum.
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  • Older women dig mud as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
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  • A bored merchant reads a tabloid as she waits for customers to buy her fish at an outdoor market in upper Belem, a crowded neighborhood in Iquitos, Peru.
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  • Yanayacu Indian women and girls sell handicrafts to tourists visiting San Juan de Yanayacu village n Peru's Amazon Jungle.
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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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  • A cow tries to graze 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 cow.)
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  • CHILE, Patagonia.  A store window profers its wares in Coihaique.
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  • A Tibetan family flees into Nepal from the border province of Mustang with their belongings carried on the backs of horses and yaks.  Until the Chinese overwhelmed Tibet in the Fifties, this route through the Kali Gandaki Gorge was a common trade route between Nepal, India and Tibet.
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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 girls head out to gather firewood in Dramo village, Khumbu region. Note khukri knife & tumpline basket.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Young girl from Manang Valley gathers yak dung  for fuel in tumpline basket.
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  • A Nepali porter rests beside the heavy basket he is carrying for trekkers en route to the khumbu region of the Himalaya.
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  • Ahmed Fafoo, a merchant in Srinigar, Kashmir, India, prepares a hookah for his evening smoke as he sits by a portable charcoal heater.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Elderly Menba mother & son relax on porch in remote Payi village, near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge in eastern Himalaya. Note Buddhist prayer wheel & rosary beads.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Menba woman from Payi village, near Tsangpo River Gorge in eastern Himalaya, chops fodder for her family's cattle.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Elderly Menba mother & son relax on porch in remote Payi village, near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge in eastern Himalaya. Note Buddhist prayer wheel & rosary beads.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA,  Dzos (yak/cattle crossbreeds) carry trekking loads up Gokyo Valley in Khumbu region. 22,250 ' (6,782m)  Kangtega bkg.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Sherpa girl gathers juniper firewood for family, augmenting deforestation in Khumbu region.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Sherpa women rush past trekkers en route to gathering firewood.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Villagers in Lunang Valley make leather straps with simple tanning equipment.
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  • Wiltsie family enjoys picnic by Island Lake in Beartooth Mountains, near Yellowstone in Wyoming.
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  • CHINA, TIBET.  Menba woman from Payi village, north of Tsangpo River Gorge (Himalaya), cleans barley harvested from family fields.
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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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  • Tamang villagers load baskets they will carry as porters in the foothills of the Nepal Himalaya.
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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.
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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 day-laborer rests between carrying baskets of mud from a canal that he is digging to mitigate monsoon flooding with a crew of other villagers of Manikganj, Bangladesh. 1977
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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 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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  • Root crops fill baskets in a bazaar in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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