Climbing Mount Everest

• Climbing Mount Everest

Everest was first conquered in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, and since then more than 4 thousand climbers were on top of it. In April, an avalanche killed 16 Nepalese Sherpas, transfer equipment for their foreign clients. Sherpas, guides demanded ban on climbing 8850-meter peaks in the memory of his colleagues, but Nepal's government has refused to go to meet them. Sherpas boycott, and hundreds of foreign climbers abandoned their applications.

group of conductors on a background of mountains Tamserku on the way back from Everest Base Camp.

The plane takes off at the airport named Tenzing and Hillary in the Khumbu region of Nepal.

The woman sitting by the window of his shop on the road to the village of Namche Bazaar in the Khumbu region of Nepal.

Bells yak near the shop in the village of Namche Bazaar in the Khumbu region of Nepal.

Sherpa sits outside his home in the village of Namche Bazaar in the Khumbu region of Nepal.

The boy catches drops of water from the tap in the Khumbu region of Nepal.

The porter returned from the village of Namche Bazaar in the Khumbu region of Nepal.

The porter is sent to the base camp of Mount Everest in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

Porter Kongde near the mountain in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

The top of Ama Dablam near the village of Khumjung in Khumbu region, Nepal.

A monk walks past a monastery in the town of Lukla in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

Sherpa family in the village of Khumjung in Khumbu, Nepal region.

The woman Sherpa holds the arms of his child, whose father was killed by an avalanche in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

The woman works in a field near the mountains in the village of Khumjung Tamserku in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

Boiling water using solar energy in Khumjung village in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

The porter resting at home in Tengboche.

View of Mount Everest from the window of a monastery in Tengboche.

Sneakers are dried in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

Shepherd with yaks near Pheriche.

Yaks are sent to the base camp of Mount Everest in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

Everest Base Camp at an altitude of 5300 meters above sea level in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

Yaks pass prayer flags on the way back from Everest Base Camp.

Explorer on a background of mountains Tamserku on the way back from Everest Base Camp.

Prayer flags above the river Lobuche.

The porter carries mattresses from the base camp of Mount Everest in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

Garbage collectors at the base camp of Mount Everest in the Khumbu region, Nepal

Sherpa sits in his tent at the base camp of Mount Everest in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

conductors in the base camp of Mount Everest at an altitude of 5300 meters above sea level in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

The conductor on the background of Mount Everest in the Khumbu region, Nepal.

Mount Pumori in the rays of dawn.