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Terraced fields
On the lower slopes of Annapurna. These terraces are extremely impressive but a bugger to farm. Nepal...
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Porters
These guys are carrying tents, food and the like for a party of Korean trekkers. Porters...
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Giant Poinsetta
I never really liked poinsettias until I saw the massive ones in Nepal. Now I want some for my own garden.
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Machhapuchhre
Through the bamboo, which takes over when it's too high for the rhododendrons.
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Machhapuchhre
Modi Khola Valley
This far up it's too high for even the bamboo. Only scrubby oak trees and lens flare can thrive
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Clouds
Looking north from the Annapurna sanctuary - some strange clouds
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Machhapuchhre, dawn
This mountain's name means the Fishtail. At dawn, that would be salmon
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Modi Khola Valley
Machhapuchhre
Not even 7000 metres high, but impossible to climb, and almost impossible to pronounce correctly
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Marigods
Annapurna South
Those are Tibetan prayer flags. This is the classic Nepal himalaya shot - flags in the foreground, mountain in the background
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