Resting - Indian street cleaner

Sagarmatha - panoramic view

Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha (Nepali: Head of the Sky) or Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level, which is 8,848 metres (29,029 ft). The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet / China.

In 1856, the Great Trigonometric Survey of India established the first published height of Everest at 29,002 ft (8,840 m), although at the time Everest was known as Peak XV. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society. By that time Chomolungma had been in common use by Tibetans for centuries.

On 8 June 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, made an attempt on the summit via the North Col/North Ridge/Northeast Ridge route from which they never returned. On 1999-05-01, the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition found Mallory's body on the North Face in a snow basin below and to the west of the traditional site of Camp VI. Controversy has raged in the mountaineering community as to whether or not one or both of them reached the summit 29 years before the confirmed ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. The general consensus among climbers has been that they did not.

on 29 May 1953, the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal reached the summit at 11:30 a.m. local time via the South Col Route. At the time, both acknowledged it as a team effort by the whole expedition, but Tenzing revealed a few years later that Hillary had put his foot on the summit first. They paused at the summit to take photographs and buried a few sweets and a small cross in the snow before descending.

Gokyo lakes - trekking the region

This high altitude alpine spot is placed within the heart of the Sherpa homeland, the Khumbu region of the Nepal Himalayas. The Gokyo Valley image is associated with the soaring view of the most popular mountains in Nepal, at an altitude of 8000m including Cho Oyu (8153m), Mount Everest (8848m), Lhotse (8,516m) and Makalu (7,678m), which are clearly visible from Gokyo Ri (5483m, 17 988ft.) above Gokyo Lake. Gokyo (4750m, 15 583ft.), at the base of Gokyo Ri, is a small hamlet of a few stone houses and nice hospitality. Gokyo Ri is a peak just above Gokyo. It is located on the west side of the Ngozumpa Glacier, which is the largest glacier in Nepal, and reputed to be the largest in the whole Himalayas.

The Gokyo trek is a fairly popular trekking route. The route itself ends at Gokyo Ri, and trekkers typically turn around at this point and retrace their steps back to the trailhead. There is an alternative mountaineering route that begins near the southern tip of Ngozumpa Glacier and just south of Taujun Lake. This alternative route leads east over the Cho La, a pass at 5420m (17 782ft), where it meets with the main Everest Base Camp trek.

Houses - Himalayan's top roofs

Cooking - nepalese kitchen

8848 - the Everest surrounding

Whistling

Human whistling is the production of sound by means of a constant stream of air from the mouth. The air is moderated by the tongue, lips, teeth, or fingers to create turbulence, and the mouth acts as a resonant chamber to enhance the resulting sound, thus acting as a type of Helmholtz resonator. Whistling can also be produced by hands, or using an external instrument, such as a whistle or even a blade of grass or leaf. The ability to whistle is possibly enabled by a genetic trait, possibly the same one which allows for curling of the tongue.

Non-instrumental whistling from the mouth can be accomplished in several ways:

<> Pucker (or "pursed lip") whistling, in which the air is expelled or inhaled through pursed lips, producing turbulence.

<> Roof or palatal whistling, in which the turbulence is produced by air being pushed between the tongue and the roof (palate or alveolar ridge) of the mouth

<> Finger whistling or wolf-whistling, in which one or more fingers are inserted into the mouth to shape the opening, allowing a much more forceful stream of air to be blown through.

<> Bottom-lip whistling entails pinching the center of the bottom lip and sucking in, rather than blowing out, resulting in a very loud and piercing whistle.

<> Hand whistling, in which air is blown from the mouth into a resonant chamber formed by cupped hands

<> Throat whistling, in which air is blown through the throat with the mouth closed.

Joyful

Mountain high

Nightlife

Small ladies

Neighborhood

Hood cap

The age of innocence

Seventies

Coffee time

Giving birth

World Birth Rates (2008 est.)

* 20 births/1,000 population

* 128.9 million births per year

* 353,015 births per day

* 14,709 births each hour

* 245 births each minute

* 4 births each second of every day

Age Structure of World's Population (2008 est.)

* 1.8 billion people under age 15 years (27%)

* 4.4 billion people age 15-64 years (65%)

* 507 million people are 65 years and over (8%)

Sky

Pointing

Passion - love is in the air

Tranquility - deserted in the desert

Meditation

Alley

Windmill

The first known practical windmills were the vertical axle windmills invented in eastern Persia by the Persian geographer Estakhri in the ninth century. The authenticity of an earlier anecdote of a windmill involving the second caliph Umar (634–644 AD) is questioned on the grounds of being a 10th-century amendment. Made of six to twelve sails covered in reed matting or cloth material, these windmills were used to grind corn or draw up water, and quite different from the European versions. A similar type of vertical shaft windmill with rectangle blades, used for irrigation, can also be found during China's 13th-century (during the Jurchen Jin Dynasty in the north), introduced by the travels of Yelü Chucai to Turkestan in 1219.

Clock Tower

Traffic jam - traveling on wheels

Keep an eye - close look

The eyes are organs that detect light, and send signals along the optic nerve to the visual areas of the brain. The simplest "eyes", in even unicellular organisms, do nothing but detect whether the surroundings are light or dark, which is sufficient for the entrainment of circadian rhythms and may allow the organism to seek out or avoid light. More complex optical systems with resolving power have come in ten fundamentally different "designs", and 96% of animal species possess a complex optical system.