Wheel of Prayer, Khumbu Valley - Nepal A brightly colored prayer wheel squeaks and whirls, powered only by a small cold creek, and housed inside a four-foot tall stone structure. These simple machines are not used for power, but to accumulate wisdom and good karma for the builder.

Rain in Lukla - Nepal The airstrip in Lukla is the normal starting point for most trekkers to the Everest region. Filled with shops and tea houses, it is a bustling little stone hamlet where the clean and perfumed trekkers cross paths with the weathered and unwashed. During the spring rains, there is no better place to be than inside one of the teahouses, sipping hot milk tea, scrolling through the pictures on your camera, and being with friends.

East Ridge of Tawoche, Khumbu Valley - Nepal Low clouds hurried by all day, giving only brief glimpses of the surrounding mountains. Then, from above the village of Pheriche, just below the terminal moraine of the Khumbu Glacier, this startling scene stole the show.