185-image photo gallery of Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal
October 21-31, 2007
Images of Pokhara and a 10-day trek to the Annapurna Sanctuary, by photographer Tom Dempsey
Image number: 07NEP-2497_FOR-WEB-Machhapuchhre-prayer-flags
The last rays of sunset hit Machhapuchhre (or Machhapuchhare), the Fish Tail Mountain (22,943 feet / 6997 meters elevation), a sacred peak, illegal to climb, in the Annapurna mountains (part of the Himalaya range), in Nepal. Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags fly from a monument at Annapurna South Base Camp (ABC, at 13,550 feet elevation) in the Annapurna Sanctuary.