swyambunath
Try saying that after a few beers...

foreign exchange
A local girl tries to sell us her child. We try to pay by cheque. A comedy of errors!

Our porter, kesh
We hired Kesh a week into the trip to carry Elizabeth's bag, and help us find Nepali chicks. Here are some that he found.

Kesh, reprise
"I like trekking life"

porter
Porters sometimes carry extreme loads. Maybe we shouldn't have brought an entire case-lot of condoms for the honeymoon.

nepali toilet
Enough said

Monastery ruins at upper pisang

mani prayer wall
With Annapurna I in the background. Or is it Annapurna IV. I get them confused.

buddhist prayer flags
Slightly higher up than the prayer wall. Flags are lighter.

kid with sticks
There are very few sticks left in Nepal. Here's why: The kids hoard them

tibetan woman, possibly named "joan"
Then again, possibly not

john evolves into pure energy
Finally, after all those Tai Chi lessons

manang
14 days into the trek, the only town with an airstrip. Small blotch on runway is a yak.

preparing for the assault on thorung-la
It was cold, dark, I was hungry, and we had to get up at 4:15 AM for the final assault on the 17,500-foot Thorung La pass. So, I did what any semi-rational, hypothermic, vertigo-afflicted person would do: I played with my camera. Ellie, although huddled in her sleeping bag against the -30 degree winds, still managed to look gorgeous. Did I mention I was semi-rational?

approach to thorung-la

people who owe me money
Kesh, Elizabeth and an Arizona firefighter named Chris. We had to eat him to survive. Unsurprisingly, he had a slight smoky flavor.

thorung-la
17,500 foot pass between the Kali Gandaki and Marsyandi rivers. We made it, but someone was obviously here before us and left a bunch of annoying Buddhist prayer flags behind. The nerve.

mustang
Restricted area

boats on phewa lake
Tragically, Sunita discovers that the paint on her boats is still wet

bridge of death
Well, actually, bridge-of-initial-slight-discomfort. We got used to them

bridge of death II
I'm running out of descriptions here... they're scarier than they look. Honestly.

no shoes
Wishing to avoid an incident on the bridge of death, Elizabeth opts for a slower, wetter crossing.

looking east
Probably

badri
11-year-old family negotiator. Convinced us to pay 40 cents a night for lodging in his vacant bedroom.