Other Adventures
I'll try to add items as they come to mind. Maybe a few images will stimulate others to travel, get out and be grateful for how well off we are compared to the vast majority of the rest of our world.
Here are some random pictures taken over the last 60 years.
A Rai wedding in NE Nepal. Note the necklaces made from old India rupees
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My first trek to the Sherpa country in 1963
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My first of four visits to Everest Base Camp. This one in 1964
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Early Christian evidence on the islands off the west coast of Scotland
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Local tribes people in the interior of Borneo. 1962
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Amidst the squalor of Calcutta is the marble edifice of the now-called Victoria Memorial, once the home of the British governor
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The real Calcutta
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Evidence of Portuguese colonization at Malacca in Malaya
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The Bagmati river in Kathmandu (at Pashpatinath temple)
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En route to Everest Base camp. Not Everest but Nuptse
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Temple in Kathmandu. "Kat" means wood.
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Urchin girl at the Trisuli river, near the border between Nepal and India
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The old monastery at Thyengboche in the Solo Khumbu region of Nepal. After burning to the ground in the 80s a newer. less picturesque "gompa" has been built
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This was the local butcher's shop when I lived in Dharan, Nepal in the early 60s
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Tibetan refugees in Kathmandu
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A modern Gurkha warrior in the British Army
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Hiking near Ouray
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View from top of Mt Sneffels SW Colorado. In the distance is the Telluride ski area
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Ouray, Colorado
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Interior natives in Borneo, 1963
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Paradise. West coast of Malaya 1962
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Rumtek monastery in Sikkhim; traditional home of the Karmapa, head of one of the main sects of Tibetan Buddhism
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Light over Northeast India
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Kangchenjunga, taken in Sikkhim
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Children enduring the cold in the Langtang valley of Nepal
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Udaipur in Rajastan
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Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar
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Daily ceremony on India/Pakistan border
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New Zealand
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Different perspective of the Taj Mahal
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Indian one horned white rhino in the Terai of southern Nepal
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British Virgin Islands
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Psy ops on the Hong Kong chines border at ShatoKok in 1969
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The mosque in Brunei
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Hong Kong- Chinese border before Hong Kong became fully Chinese
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Mane wall in north central Nepal
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The sleeping gold Buddha, Bangkok
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Hindu sadhu at the Padshupatinath temple Kathmandu
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I like reggae !! Taken at the Buddhanilkhanta temple in Ksathmandu
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