Saffron Water, Kathmandu - Nepal As part of Buddhist ritual, a young man throws great arcs of yellow saffron water onto the great dome of Bodhnath, the largest Buddhist Stupa in the world.

The Great Himalaya - Nepal On the left, Everest peaks over the top of the Lhotse ridge. And on the right, the south face of Lhotse sweeps into the dark sky, with a spectacular 9,000 ft face made of fluted ribs of snow and rock buttresses. This wicked face was only first climbed in 1990, by the Soviet USSR Himalayan expedition.

Serpent Stone, Tengboche - Nepal A folded piece of granite hides among the rough-cut stones of a small Buddhist temple, or Stupa, near the monastery at Tengboche.