Nepal Photographs

A salt caravan, made up of ponies, treks north from Nepal towards Mustang and the...

On a rooftop of a house in Muktinath, Nepal, near the Tibetian kingdom of Mustang,...

A monk on a pilgrim to this hill top temple in Katmandu, Nepal rotates in...

In the cool and almost treeless Sherpa area, a travelling door-to-door salesman peddles baskets woven...

Newly painted tankas, or religious tapestries are hung over the old, soot-covered tankas....

A salt trader rests in the village of Mustang, an old kingdom on the border...

A mother comforts a crying baby lying in a bamboo cradle or papoose which the...

At a public well and bath, which is also a local shrine, a Katmandu resident...

This women is waiting at a market in eastern Nepal, near Sikkhim....

Without a shoe, the foot is another hand, here used to hold a small piece...

A devout follow spins an umbrella over the ark of the local god as it...

Near the royal plaza, a vestal virgin is carried in an ark. The girl is...

An immense chariot of the gods has been drawn into the plaza. The idol is...

A Nepali Gurkha guards one of the royal palaces. Elaborate icons of Hindu gods, along...

Next to a stone stupa, a carpenter saw the roof beam of a new house...

Two flutists in a holy day procession....

A Sherpa run town on the cups of the Mt. Everest region. The town sits...

On a festival day, the women wear their best outfits. The men fill up small...

The last trading outpost on the trail to Mt. Everest. Merchants and traders from Tibet...

Local carpenters produce planks on the spot by sawing logs. They are building a home....

In early morning a housewife grinds wheat into flour on her kitchen floor millstone....

A potter spins a stone kick-wheel in order to throw his pots. Once formed they...

Fifty kilos of just harvested grain are carried back to the threshing floor to be...

Hauling water is usually women's work in Nepal. The trip for water can be long...

Along the trails in the Solu-Khumbu region of Nepal, home of Sherpas and within the...

A small village along the crest of a ridge on the old foot highway between...

Shaky bamboo bridges are common over the rapid waters in the Himalayas. More substainial bridges...

If we define medieval as a "world lit only by fire" then the world of...

No toys are no inhibition for having fun. There are four ways kids here are...

Using cowrie shells as dice, Nepalis play a game we call Parchesi....

Early morning hangout on the steps of the pagoda in Bhaktapur, Nepal....

The monkey temple at the top of the mount temple in Katmandu....

A perfectly circular village surrounds this stupa in Nepal....

Traditional town houses with balconies wind down a street. A sleepy dog and a boy...

An outdoor sculpture in Katmandu sports the spiritual third eye. The spot between the two...

On the terraced slopes of the Himalayan foothills, Nepali farmers harvest their barley crop. After...

Two Nepali men gossip in the old capital town of Gurkha....

The main plaza in Durbar Square, Katmandu. Locals linger in an autumn evening....

In a temple in Durbar Square in Katmandu, a devoutee rings a temple bell....

Goods are transported by porters throughout Nepal. On a trail in the eastern Arun Valley...

Under the spell of mount Anapurna, a Nepalese women tends her fields in the valley...

In early morning fog, the egg man delivers his goods to the market....

Throughout the public squares of Katmandu are small religious statuary. This one of a piggy...

This is Periche, the last inhabited village below Mt. Everest, on the Nepal side. It's...

On the old foot highway trail between Katmandu and Pokhara, a not-particulary high local peak...

The idea of prayer wheels is that by spinning them you set the prayer in...

The hills of the Himalayas are cut with narrow terraces. Some of these may only...

Carved wooden window in the old city of Patan....

Brass ornaments along a palace roof....

Near the old capital city of Gurkha, a mountain village on the main trail from...

In the early morning mist in Katmandu I encountered this small palace pond with a...