Sunday, 10 December 1978

India 1978

Kaziranga Rhino reserve in Assam




The rhino is one reason we are on elephants. Risky to walk






Assam express Guahati to Delhi

Shillong area 

Calcutta 1978. Bridge over river from station to city





Salvation army hostel Calcutta



Calcutta Anglican cathedral
Victoria memorial Calcutta

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Hand powered big wheel

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Steam engines in Calcutta in days before Michael Portillo




In Delhi in the holi festival. People throw coloured powder everywhere

Delhi Qutub Minar. 73m high and built in 1193. Closed since 1981 after a stampede
killed 45 people.

Iron Pillar made in 402AD from rust resistant iron.
Good luck if you join your hands around it. One guy helps you yank!

From Qutub Minar looking to iron pillar

Taj Mahal behind camels

near Taj


Near front of Taj

Charles and Diana at the Taj




Fatepur Sikri abandoned Moghul city near Agra







Fatepur Sikri



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Shaking minarets at Ahmedabad

Shake one tower and the other moves

The parasite and palm

Gateway to India Mumbai (Bombay)


Goa

Basic accommodation at Goa with water from the well and black pigs eating toilets

Ootacamund queen of the hill stations

Ooty botanical gardens


Cochin Kerala fishing nets



Christian parade in Kerala


Madurai temple



Mysore ?


Saturday, 9 December 1978

Nepal Everest Base Camp 1978

Walking to base camp. Most locals had no shoes and really wide feet. Feet much better than my squashed ones

10 days of walking across country up and down 5,000ft each day

Chorten by the track

One of many villages only reached by foot

Terrace farming. Little flat land on our 6 week walk


Each afternoon we looked for a big house and asked if we could stay night. Usually yes

Prayer stones.I was getting thinner as very little food on the track except above Lukla.

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Another house for the night

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A very simple tea house. Dinner cooked on fire in middle of earth floor. Chilli and rice and subsi vegetable


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Porters carrying good to Namche Bazaar

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Above Namche. Ama Dablam behind




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Namche Bazaar

Young lad who walked with us for about 4 miles on his way from school

Tyangboche monastery sunrise. Lots of frost




Glacier from Everesr Base Camp

Yaks

Lobuche



Everest and Ama Dablam

Everest from Kala Patar




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Everest







Snow in the pass tropical 5000ft below in valley


Dharan? airfield. First shop for two weeks here. East from Namche