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- View of Everest’s peak from the plane between Beijing and Lhasa
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- On the road to Lhasa from Gonggar Airport
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- Nietang Buddha, on the road to Lhasa
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- On the Barkhor prayer circuit in Lhasa’s old town. As much smoke as possible is generated to please the gods.
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- Circumambulating with prayer beads, Lhasa old town
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- View of Potala Palace (seat of the Dalai Lama before his exile) from old Lhasa
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- Outside Jokhang Temple, old Lhasa
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- View from the top of Banakshol Hotel, Lhasa. This is where I listened to Fleetwood Mac on the roof of the world.
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- Potala Palace, Lhasa
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- Lhasa’s Great Mosque
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- Potala Palace, Lhasa
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- Inside Drepung Monastery, Lhasa. The hats belong to Gelug-pa monks (also known as the Yellow Hat Sect – the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism).
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- Monks debating at the Sera Monastery, outside Lhasa
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- Monks debating at the Sera Monastery, outside Lhasa
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- Monks debating at the Sera Monastery, outside Lhasa
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- Monks debating at the Sera Monastery, outside Lhasa
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- Monks debating at the Sera Monastery, outside Lhasa
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- Yamdroktso Lake, between Lhasa and Gyantse, 4990m above sea level.
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- Road to Gyantse, 5050m
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- Basum-tso Lake, 3700m
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- Basum-tso Lake, 3700m
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- Gyantse Dzong (Fortress)
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- Kumbum, Gyantse
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- View over Gyantse from the top of the Dzong
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- Working on Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse
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- On the road to Sakya, going back over 4000m
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- Ruins at Sakya, 4300m
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- Ruins at Sakya
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- Highest pass of the trip at 5248m above sea level. Pieces of paper with prayers on were flying everywhere
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- Everest, or Qomolangma in Tibetan (pronounced Chomolungma)
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- On the road to Everest. Freezing cold, howling winds, crushing altitude sickness, yet still dragged, magnetised and hypnotised, onward towards the mountain.
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- Everest Base Camp, 5200m. Viewed from ‘Marvel Hill’
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- Everest as the sun starts to drop
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- Everest in full sunset, the light sliding down the west of the mountain…
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- …and Everest at sunrise, with the sun creeping back up its east side
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- The early-morning sun makes its way over the rest of the Himalayas
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- On the road away from Rongbuk Monastery, near Everest Base Camp
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- The Himalayas…
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- Coming down the mountain through the clouds, road to Zhangmou
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- Coming down the mountain through the clouds, road to Zhangmou
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- Coming down the mountain through the clouds, road to Zhangmou
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