Alpine Frost

This is the view from Muktinath across a large expanse looking at Dhaulagiri in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. To get here is a feat in itself as it's situated high in the mountains. When I arrived there was a fuel shortage and most of the towns in rural Nepal were feeling the effects of vehicles having no fuel. Supplies were short, and the people were also feeling effects of decreased tourists as a result of the recent earthquake.

 

It's almost irrelevant what you wear in high altitude the cold is bone chilling. As a photographer this provides unique challenges as we like to get up well before sunrise, and stay up into the night. What you can't see in these shots is the guy freezing on the other end of the lens. Or the feeling that pushing over a 15,000 foot mountain pass puts into a tired body. It can't explain how small I feel here, these mountains make elephants into ants. It's hard to understand the scale, but essentially it would take literally days of walking straight up to summit the mountain you're looking at. There is nothing like these mountains in the world.

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