From here, climbers have a stupendous view of the upper 8,000 feet of Everest—the first glimpse ... point is covered with an assortment of prayer flags, remnants of surveying equipment and ...

I returned to Everest the following year ... with its array of survey prisms and prayer flags. The sun is low, the sky an unearthly blue; it's the hour of golden light. He's taken his oxygen ...

Everest, Cho You, Manaslu and other Himalayan ... and the bright colors of the prayer flags as they are strung over our camp.