A porter carries a heavy load over a glacier covered in moraine (rock pulverised by the movement of the glacier). Skies are deep blue and cloud gathers around the mountain peaks towering overhead. The peak to the right is Pumori, one of the 8,000m summits. Canon EOS550D and Tamron 18-200mm ISO200 18mm f/11 1/500s 5th November 2011 10.58am
A lone porter picks his way through the moraines carrying a heavy load towards Gorak Shep.
Himalayan giants tower over him.
November 2011.
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