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  • Gold Harbor, South Georgia, Antarctica. Portrait of a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus).
    AC 0130.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. 80-year old Tibetan Buddhist lama in Rinchenlhumbe who survived Soviet repression during which most monks were killed.
    MG 2726.jpg
  • A Sherpa woman carries her grandson inPangboche Village in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
    K 1914.jpg
  • Amina Khatum, once a middle class woman with servants, was widowed and cast onto the street by the country's brutal War of Independence in 1971. Although still living in a refugee camp six years later, family and friends still gave her reasons to smile.
    BD 0113.jpg
  • Homeless and malnourished village children from Bangladesh find a moment to smile at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh. in 1977.  Their mother had been left widowed, violated and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
    BD 0209.jpg
  • 75-year old Gonchigsuren, a nomad,  relaxes with his cat in his ger (yurt), Darhad Valley, Mongolia.
    MG 6774.jpg
  • A Hindu Yogi practices his craft at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1986.
    KM 0542.jpg
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  • Young snake charmers play with their reptiles during a Hindu pilgrimage to Amarnath Cave in the Great Himalaya Range of Kashmir, India.
    AY 0304.jpg
  • A village elder rests beside the trail in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal.
    AN 0510.jpg
  • In Bangladesh's brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of women were widowed, left homeless and destitute including this once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
    BD 0109.jpg
  • Homesteader from Amazon cloud forests enroute to market in Bolivar.
    PE 2119.jpg
  • Umgan, a traditional shaman beats his drum, dances and chants to put himself into a trance in the Darhad Valley, Mongolia.
    MG 1833.jpg
  • Ahmed Fafoo, a merchant in Srinigar, Kashmir, India, prepares a hookah for his evening smoke as he sits by a portable charcoal heater.
    GM 0012.jpg
  • An elderly Inuit hunter relaxes, bathed in midnight sun.
    BI 2997.jpg
  • Inuit hunter & kayak maker, Peter Paniloo wears traditional caribou parka, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
    BI 1559.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Weddell seal sleeps on snowy beach on King George Island in South Shetland Islands, near the Antarctic Peninsula.
    AG 5606.jpg
  • A local Hindu mystic and Aruvedic doctors poses in his hut in the Marsyandi River Valley, Nepal
    AA 4405.jpg
  • L 0096.jpg
  • A Hindu ascetic in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KT 1812.jpg
  • Newari Hindus in Bhaktapur, Nepal, gather to celebrate Gai Jatra (the cow festival) where families honor their dead and march or dance through the city, performing  to encourage their passing to heaven.
    KM 3480.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo River Gorge. Village children in Gyala.  Mt. Namcha Barwa bkg.
    TS 2743.jpg
  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Sherpa elder Dawa Tenzing, (1907-1985), veteran of 1924 Mallory/Irvine expedition & first Nepal-side Everest expeditions. (1980 photo).
    S 0518.jpg
  • L 0096.jpg
  • KT 0165.jpg
  • In Bangladesh's brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of women were widowed, left homeless and destitute including this pair of once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
    BD 0216.jpg
  • Veteran Sherpa Dawa Tenzing, who climbed on Hillary's Everest expedtion, in Namche Bazar, 1980.
    S 0412.jpg
  • Village boy near Ghandrung, Nepal.
    AA 0314.jpg
  • A Yanayacu Indian fisherman paddles his canoe in the Yanayacu River in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
    PEe 091112-362-2.jpg
  • A cart driver with his ox stands in a larch forest near Lake Hovsgol and the Horidal Saridag Mountains in Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 060627-001.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET.  A farmer of Menba descent, carrying wares to market, relaxes in dense hardwood jungle near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge.
    TS 3427.jpg
  • Memba womenin wash potatoes in Bayi village at the downstream end of the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
    TS 3393.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET.  Young father & son, reading at home in Pe village, near Tsangpo River Gorge.
    TS 2932.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. A hunter (poacher) from Kykar village loads his venerable weapon to shoot takin or musk deer.
    TS 0950.jpg
  • Balti horseman and Upper Warwan Valley.
    TH 1610.jpg
  • INDIA, Kashmir. Nomadic Gujar shepherd near Pahalgam in Great Himalaya Range.
    TH 0612.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Daughter of Umgan, a shaman.  As her father ages, she will inherit his skills and trade.
    MG 1877.jpg
  • Tamang villagers load baskets they will carry as porters in the foothills of the Nepal Himalaya.
    LT 0108.jpg
  • KT 0165.jpg
  • Amrit Rana, a Nepali folk musician, performs in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996. (model released)
    KM 3765.jpg
  • Newari Hindus in Bhaktapur, Nepal, gather to celebrate Gai Jatra (the cow festival) where families honor their dead and march or dance through the city, performing  to encourage their passing to heaven.
    KM 3499.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist monks chant and play musical instruments during  a sacred puja ceremony in a monastery in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, 1996.
    KM 2598.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist monks chant and play musical instruments during  a sacred puja ceremony in a monastery in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, 1996.
    KM 2568.jpg
  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Hindu ascetic meditates on temple steps, Durbar Square.
    KM 2066.jpg
  • Dawa Sherpani  comforts her daughter in their kitchen in Namche Bazar, leading town of the Khumbu region, Nepal.
    KF 0561.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Herder guides geotourists across river during horseback ride in Darhad Valley.
    MGe 060703-026.jpg
  • Villagers carry leaves they chopped in the forest for their animals, a major fuel of Nepal's deforestation.
    LT 0110.jpg
  • Villagers bring haul leaves from the forest to feed their animals, a major fuel of Nepal's deforestation.
    LT 019H.jpg
  • LK 2619.jpg
  • L 0189.jpg
  • A lowland Nepali village girl stands beside her family's rice paddies near Lamosangu.  The red spot on her forehead  probably means that she is married, but could also just be applied for beauty.
    L 0083.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA, Village schoolboy near Junbesi in lowland Nepal.
    L 0057.jpg
  • A youngster carries his brother in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KT 1912.jpg
  • Troops from the Nepali army perform a drill at a festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KT 1611.jpg
  • KT 1209.jpg
  • KT 0165.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0006.jpg
  • A Tibetan dance troupe performs in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
    KM 3940.jpg
  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Sanu Thapa (MR), a traditional Nepali singer.
    KM 3787.jpg
  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Young Buddhist monks pray in new monastery near Bodh'nath.
    KM 2557.jpg
  • Children of Tibetan refugees attend a school in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
    KM 2416.jpg
  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Hindu ascetic in pilgrim's shelter at Pashupatinath Temple, one of holiest shrines for Shiva.
    KM 2076.jpg
  • A hindu ascetic meditates outside a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
    KM 2067.jpg
  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Hindu ascetic meditates on temple steps, Durbar Square.
    KM 2066.jpg
  • A youngster stands near vendors outside a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
    KM 1881.jpg
  • Nepal, Kathmandu.  Hindu ascentic (sadhu) on temple steps, Durbar Square.
    KM 0737.jpg
  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Ascetic Hindu shopkeeper watches his grandchild near Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal. Trident is a symbol of Shiva.
    KM 0548.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist monks chant and play musical instruments during  a sacred puja ceremonyat Swayambhu Temple in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, 1986.
    KM 0323.jpg
  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
    KF 0636.jpg
  • 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.
    KF 0632.jpg
  • Sherp women in their kitchen in Namche Bazar in the Khumbu region of Nepal 1986.
    KF 0613.jpg
  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge, Villager crosses Tsangpo R. (Brahmaputra) on single cable "bridge."
    TS 3643.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET.  A farmer of Menba descent, carrying wares to market, relaxes in dense hardwood jungle near mouth of Tsangpo River Gorge.
    TS 3427.jpg
  • A Memba matriarch plays with her grandson’s puppy at their farm in Bayi village in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
    TS 3391.jpg
  • A Memba man sits outside his barn outside Bayi village, at the dowsnstream terminus of the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
    TS 3327.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET.  Young father & son, reading at home in Pe village, near Tsangpo River Gorge.
    TS 2932.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge.  Tibetan Buddhist lama on pilgrimage to sacred waterfall in this deep Himalayan canyon.
    TS 1092.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Villagers lunch on shared tsampa bread, chili pepper paste & salty tea.
    TS 1079.jpg
  • INDIA, Ladakh, (Kashmir). Ladakhi woman with traditional hat & jewelry.  Kanji village, Zanskar Mts.
    TH 4717.jpg
  • TH 4418.jpg
  • Zanskari boy, Zulidok, Ladakh, India.
    TH 3602.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist lama with rosary & prayer books. Rangdum Gompa (monastery) Zanskar (part of Ladakh) India.
    TH 3305.jpg
  • Balti sister & brother, Suru Valley, Baltisan (part of Ladakh) India.
    TH 2408.jpg
  • Balti horseman and Upper Warwan Valley.
    TH 1610.jpg
  • Kashmiri family in Warwan Valley.
    TH 1013.jpg
  • INDIA, Kashmir. Nomadic Gujar shepherd near Pahalgam in Great Himalaya Range.
    TH 0612.jpg
  • TH 0318.jpg
  • "Gujar" Nomadic Shepherd.
    TH 0314.jpg
  • TH 0312.jpg
  • Sherpa Yak Drivers enjoy a break with sale and butter tea.  Khumbu Region, Nepal
    S 0104.jpg
  • Villagers carry leaves they chopped in the forest for their animals, a major fuel of Nepal's deforestation.
    LT 0110.jpg
  • LK 2619.jpg
  • L 0189.jpg
  • A lowland Nepali village girl stands beside her family's rice paddies near Lamosangu.  The red spot on her forehead  probably means that she is married, but could also just be applied for beauty.
    L 0083.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA, Village schoolboy near Junbesi in lowland Nepal.
    L 0057.jpg
  • A youngster carries his brother in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KT 1912.jpg
  • A Hindu ascetic in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KT 1812.jpg
  • Troops from the Nepali army perform a drill at a festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KT 1611.jpg
  • KT 1209.jpg
  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
    KT 0006.jpg
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