180-image photo gallery of trekking the Mt. Everest / Gokyo Ri region
November 3 - 17, 2007
Pictures of trekking 14 days from Lukla to Namche Bazaar, Tengboche, Chhukhung & Gokyo Ri, by photographer Tom Dempsey / Photoseek.com
File number: 07NEP-3567
Porters walk with a yak pack train beneath the mountain of Lhotse (27,940 feet), the world's fourth highest peak, in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. The south face of Lhotse rises 3.2 km (1.98 mi) in only 2.25 km (1.4 mi) of horizontal distance (averaging a 55 degree angle slope).