Tired Nepali porter 24th December 2006

2 Responses to “Tired Nepali porter”

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Ashish Sidapara:

Lots of character, superb portrait!!
Wishing you Merry Christmas and a great year ahead!!

December 24th, 2006 at 06:27
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MC:

This photo speaks volumes!!! Well done.

December 27th, 2006 at 20:35

CameraCanon EOS 5D
Focal Length50 mm
Aperturef/2.8
Exposure1/200 sec
ISO200
Date Taken26 Mar 2006, 11:26

The story behind "Tired Nepali porter"

The upper Khumbu Valley has no roads and all goods have to be portered in. In the busy Everest season this means a long stream of porters, carrying up to 120kgs of food, water and other goods.

This guys was passing and though I first took an image of him and his impressive basket, I thought it would be nice to show his tired face, with just a little drop of sweat running down his nose…

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