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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. 80-year old Tibetan Buddhist lama in Rinchenlhumbe who survived Soviet repression during which most monks were killed.
    MG 2726.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
  • BI 2189.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo River Gorge. Village children in Gyala.  Mt. Namcha Barwa bkg.
    TS 2743.jpg
  • Village boy near Ghandrung, Nepal.
    AA 0314.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
  • 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
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  • L 0189.jpg
  • L 0096.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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, 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
  • 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
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  • TH 0312.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
  • 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
  • L 0096.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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. Ascetic Hindu shopkeeper watches his grandchild near Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal. Trident is a symbol of Shiva.
    KM 0548.jpg
  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
    KF 0636.jpg
  • Sherp women in their kitchen in Namche Bazar in the Khumbu region of Nepal 1986.
    KF 0613.jpg
  • A young brides's family and friends help prep her for at a traditional Bengali wedding in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
    BD 2709.jpg
  • Youngsters line up for a food distribution at Mirpur Destitute Camp near , set up at an abndoned soap factory after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homless.  1977 image.
    BD 1412.jpg
  • A youngster vends his nuts and snacks along a road  in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0619.jpg
  • BD 0609.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
  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
    BD 0215.jpg
  • Kunchok Chombi Sherpa - a veteran of the first successful Everest expedition 1952, relaxes in a house in Namche Bazar in the Khumbu region of Nepal 1986.
    KF 0631.jpg
  • Pasang Tenzing Sherpa practices a Tyrolean traverse at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
    SC 0131.jpg
  • Ang Dyale Sherpa in his climbing harness at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
    SC 0041.jpg
  • 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.
    S 0618.jpg
  • Veteran Sherpa Dawa Tenzing, who climbed on Hillary's Everest expedtion, in Namche Bazar, 1980.
    S 0412.jpg
  • Sherpa Yak Drivers enjoy a break with sale and butter tea.  Khumbu Region, Nepal
    S 0104.jpg
  • Young Thakali boy in Kalopani, Nepal.
    AN 7009.jpg
  • A village woman in the Muktinath Valley, norh of Annapurna in Nepal.
    AN 5913.jpg
  • A monk stands in a Tibetan Buddhis gompa (temple) in Braga village in the Manang Valley north of Annapurna in Nepal.
    AN 5301.jpg
  • A Yanayacu Indian fisherman paddles his canoe in the Yanayacu River in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
    PEe 091112-362-2.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Herder guides geotourists across river during horseback ride in Darhad Valley.
    MGe 060703-026.jpg
  • MGe 060703-023.jpg
  • MGe 060703-008.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
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