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-3678
Over 50 million years, global tectonic forces drove India against Asia, lifting these former sea bed layers to form the top of Lhotse, Nepal. The Himalaya are still rising 2 inches every year. Lhotse (27,923 feet / 8511 meters, above sea level) is the world's fourth highest peak.