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2025/02/24 18:20

High altitude backboard and basketball court with Ama Dablam in the background

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A colour photograph. There is a backboard and fenced basketball court in the foreground. There is a deep valley behind it and further, above there is a snow capped, sharp shape, high mountain.
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2025/02/23 18:20

Tourists watching and photographing sunrise, and shooting selfies on the second day of 2024, with mountains of the Annapurna Massif in the background

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2025/02/22 18:20

Pumori, the Everest Region

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A monochrome, grayscale photograph of a piramid-like, snow-capped, sharp-edges mountain.
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2025/02/21 18:20

Taj Mahal during my latest visit, a month ago

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2025/02/20 18:20

Meditating Shiva, Rishikesh

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A large statue of a naked man, sitting in the meditation position with his eyes closed. Photographed at night against dark, black sky with the statue lit by an electric light.
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2025/02/19 18:20

Taj Mahal seen from the gateway. Photographed in the morning of a winter, blue sky day.

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A colour photography of Taj Mahal. The famous mausoleum is in the centre, lit from the right hand side by the morning sun. It has been photographed from the gateway and it is framed by the gateway arch. Silhouettes of some visitors - watching and photographing the Taj - are visible in the foreground, at the bottom of the image.
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2025/02/18 18:20

Taj Mahal seen from Mehtab Bagh, the Moonlight Garden, located on the opposite side of the river

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Taj Mahal – monochrome, greyscale photograph shot on a misty morning when the mausoleum is seen without details. There are some garden plants and silhouettes of some visitors in the foreground.
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2025/02/17 18:20

Sapina River and the riparian forest, the swamp, partially reflected in the slowly flowing water. Photographed in January last year. Masurian Lake District,

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2025/02/15 18:20

Mount Everest at sunset

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A colour photograph of rocky, glacier shaped, snow capped mountains. The tallest in the view is Mount Everest and right of it is South Summit. It is Nuptse, with it's long ridge in the foreground. All lit by the warm, orange light of the setting sun.
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2025/02/14 18:20

Chinkara (Indian gazelle) photographed in the wild, in Ranthambore National Park

A long horn, medium size gazelle standing on the dry grass and looking towards the photographer. A colour photo.
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2025/02/13 18:20

Chinkara (Gazella bennettii) photographed in the wild, in Ranthambore National Park,

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A medium size antelope with relatively long horns walking in high, dry grass with some dry trees in the background. A colour photograph.
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2025/02/12 18:20

Lighthouse at Mykineshólmur of the Faroe Islands

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Colour photograph of a green, grass covered, small island surrounded by sea with a small, white, red roof lighthouse. Shot in a beautiful, sunny weather under blue sky with some white, tiny clouds.
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2025/02/11 18:20

Tsarab Chu, the beautiful river flowing across the remote part of Zanskar Mountains in the Himalayas. , India

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A colour photograph showing a clear, ocean-blue river flowing in a mountain valley with dry slopes covered with scars plants. Some shrubs growing at the valley floor are generally green but have clear signs of autumn or late summer. A clearly rugged landscape.
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2025/02/10 18:20

Fallen, red-pink Rhododendron petals on the forest floor

Poon Hill Trek in the . Gandaki Province,

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Fallen, red-pink Rhododendron petals on the forest floor near Tadapani, in the Annapurna Conservation Area, photographed on a spring afternoon day. A closeup. March, the pre-monsoon trekking season. Gandaki Province, Nepal. A colour photograph.
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2025/02/09 18:20

Dry, gone to seed flower of a herbaceous plant

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Dry, gone to seed flower of a herbaceous plant. A monochrome, greyscale photograph. Chitwan National Park, Sauraha. Chitwan District, Bagmati Province, Nepal
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2025/02/08 18:20

Ama Dablam with Buddhist prayer flags waving in the wind at Thokla Pass en route to the Everest Base Camp. National Park, the Region,

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It is a picture of a mountain of sharp shapes, sheer rocky slopes partially covered with snow, photographed against clear blue sky with some, colourful Buddhist prayer flags waving in the wind in the foreground. A colour photograph.
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2025/02/07 18:20

Tsarab Chu Valley, a short distance upstream of Hormoche in a remote part of Range of the in , India. An autumn view. A beautiful, demanding, remote and wild trek follows this valley towards the Zanskar region.

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Colour photograph of a dry, mountain landscape. An meandering river flows in the middle of the photo towards the spectator and dry slopes grow relatively steep towards both sides of the image.
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2025/02/06 18:20

A piece of glacial ice melting on the beach near to Jökulsárlón, Iceland

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A piece of glacial ice melting on the Atlantic Ocean beach near to Jökulsárlón glacial lake (glacial lagoon) in Southeast Iceland. For these melting pieces of ice, the place is sometimes called the diamond beach. A colour photograph of a ice crystal, which dominates the image, laying on black sand.
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2025/02/05 18:20

Captive female of Asian elephant with her calf going for a walk near Elephant Breeding Centre in Sauraha, Chitwan,

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A monochrome, greyscale photograph of two elephants - mother and baby. Photographed from the back, while walking in a short grass. Only a lower part of the mother's body is visible and the calf is walking between her rear legs.
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2025/02/04 18:20

Himalayan spring is approaching and I can't wait to lead the trekking trip planned for early April.

I shot this photo from Ghorepani in the Annapurna Himal. The eight-thousander Dhaulagiri is in the center.

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2025/02/03 18:20

Atlantic puffin on a grassy slope of the Mykines island

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A black and white bird with a clown-like face and red, big bill sitting in the green grass, photographed from a short distance. A colour photo.
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2025/02/02 18:20

"Glacial Ice Asteroid"

Southern coast of Iceland, so called "Diamond Beach".

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A piece of glacial ice melting on the Atlantic Ocean beach near to Jökulsárlón glacial lake (glacial lagoon) in Southeast Iceland. For these melting pieces of ice, the place is sometimes called the diamond beach. A colour photograph of a ice crystal, which dominates the image, laying on small, black and dark grey stones.
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2025/02/01 18:20

Silhouette of Taj Mahal in BnW

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Silhouette of Taj Mahal with its minaret photographed against the light of the rising sun. The building looks black, the sun is hidden behind one of the minarets and some birds're flying near to the tower's top. A monochrome, greyscale photograph. Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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2025/01/31 18:20

The classic view of Mount Everest from the top of Kala Patthar

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2025/01/30 18:20

Chital, popularly called spotted deer, photographed in the morning of a sunny, December day during the jeep safari in the Ranthambore National Park of Rajasthan.

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A colour photograph depicting a young deer lying on the ground among dry grasses and looking towards the photographer.
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2025/01/29 18:20

The eight-thousander Cho Oyu, Tenzing Peak, Hillary Peak and many other Himalayan mountains seen from a high point above the Ama Dablam Base Camp – I have added labels on this photo to mark the summits clearly.

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© Radek Kucharski

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2025/01/28 18:20

The World's highest mountains, Mount Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse seen from Gokyo Ri at sunset. I have added labels on this photo to mark the summits clearly.

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2025/01/27 18:20

Nilgai, popularly called the blue bull or blue cow, encountered in the wild, during my last visit to the Ranthambore National Park in Dec last year

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2025/01/26 18:20

Himalayan tahr, listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, encountered in the wild, in the upper Langtang Khola Valley of the Himalayas

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A colour photography depicting a Himalayan tahr, an even-toed ungulate, standing among grey rocks and facing my camera.
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2025/01/25 18:20

The Himalayan peaks: Langtang Lirung and Kimshung with some Buddhist prayer flags in the foreground. Photographed during my solo trek in the Langtang Valley years ago, two years after the devastating earthquake.

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A colour photograph. Two snow capped mountains takes most space in the image. The blue sky is above them and some colourful Buddhist prayer flags are in the foreground.
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2025/01/24 18:20

Buddha Maitreya, Thikse Gompa, Ladakh

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Photograph of a religious statue of the Future Buddha, Maitreya; the upper part of the torso and the crowned head can be seen.
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2025/01/23 18:20

Seen at sunrise from Sarangkot in Nepal: Annapurna Massif

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A monochrome, greyscale photograph of mountains.
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2025/01/22 18:20

Capri at sunset

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A colour photograph. Silhouette of an island on a sea, photographed under some heavy clouds and against the setting sun.
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2025/01/21 18:20

Sculpted by wind – a boulder found at Wadi al-Hitan, Sahara, Egypt

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A monochrome, greyscale photograph of a boulder shaped by the wind in the process called wind erosion. Photographed on a sunny day with some cirrus clouds.
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2025/01/20 18:20

Boudha Stupa in Kathmandu: the spire with painted eyes of the Buddha

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A colour photographed showing Boudha Stupa, the religious building in the Kathmandu Valley, with colourful prayer flags hanging from its top and the clear, blue sky in the background.
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2025/01/19 18:20

Boudha Stupa, Kathmandu

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A colour photographed showing Boudha Stupa, the religious building in the Kathmandu Valley, with colourful prayer flags hanging from its top and the clear, blue sky in the background. There are contours of some people standing in the shade in the foreground.
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2025/01/18 18:20

Mountain panorama photographed at dawn from the summit of Gokyo Ri, a trekking peak in the Everest Region: Silhouettes of Taboche, Malanphulan, Kangtega, Thamserku among other peaks.

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A colour photograph. The contour line in the middle marks the boundary between dark, almost black below, the shade, and the light upper part: orange, yellow and blue - the clear sky. This line marks the silhouette of some high, sharply shaped mountains.
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2025/01/17 18:20

View from the summit of Gokyo Ri marked with Buddhist prayer flags: the eight-thousander Cho-Oyu

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A colour photograph of a mountain summit in the Himalayas. There are colourful Buddhist prayer flags in the foreground slightly moved by the wind. A snow capped mountain is in the centre - the eight-thousander Cho Oyu. All seen against the clear, deep-blue sky.
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2025/01/16 18:20

Looking East from Renjo La in the Everest Region: the eight-thousander Makalu

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A pyramid-like mountain photographed against clear, blue sky.
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2025/01/15 18:20

View towards East from Renjo La: Mount Everest

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World's highest mountain with a tiny cloud above its top photographed against the otherwise clear, blue sky.
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2025/01/14 18:20

View from Renjo La, the mountain pass above Gokyo in Khumbu, the Everest Region. Photographed on a clear, autumn day. The panorama consists of eight-thousanders: Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and other Himalayan peaks including Changtse, Nutptse and Taboche.

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A colour photograph. Mountain panorama of sharply shaped peaks with a lake below. Some mountains covered with snow. Photographed from a high point.
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2025/01/14 10:14

Pangpoche (6620 m) peak of the Manaslu Region viewed from the Manaslu Circuit trekking route short way above Larke Bazar and the Samdo Village. The Himalayas. Gorkha District, Gandaki Province, Nepal. A greyscale photograph.

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2025/01/13 23:15

Silhouettes of Himalayan mountain ridges above the valley covering clouds seen early in the morning on a November day. Nagarkot, the popular viewpoint above Kathmandu Valley. Bhaktapur District,

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A monochrome, greyscale photograph. It shows multiple mountain ridges and layers of grey clouds below them. Unlike the others, the first ridge is black and there are silhouettes of shrubs growing on it.
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2025/01/10 14:11

Silhouettes of the World's highest mountains, the eight-thousanders: Mount Everest (8850m), Lhotse (8516m) and Makalu (8485m) among other prominent peaks, seen from the way to the summit of Gokyo Ri (5357m) at dawn. Solukhumbu, Sagarmatha National Park,

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A colour photograph. The lower part is completely dark, black. It contrast the upper part, the clear, new day, daybreak sky. The line between the two marks the silhouette of some high mountains.
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2024/12/14 12:02

The Buddha's Eye

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2024/12/13 22:53

Cho Oyu (8201m) seen shortly after sunrise from Gokyo Ri (5357m). Sagarmatha National Park, Everest Region Trek, Nepal

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A colour photograph of a mountain summit decorated with Buddhist prayer flags seen on a clear, sunny day under the blue sky with a snow capped mountain in the distance.
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2024/12/12 21:30

Swayambhunath, sometimes called the Monkey Temple, the stupa in the Kathmandu Valley photographed roughly a month ago

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Photograph of the upper part of the stupa, the golden spire, and the upper part of the white dome photographed against the clear, blue sky.
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2024/12/10 23:55

This is the view from a vantage point visited during my last trip – a place located high above the Ama Dablam Base Camp, at the very end of a long moraine hill, just at the altitude of 5000 m. There is Cho Oyu, the World's sixth highest mountain in the view, the beautiful and well known Pumori, Gyachung Kang – the highest below 8000m, and there're Tenzing and Hillary peaks.

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A colour photograph showing high, snow capped mountains.
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2024/12/10 09:14

My another image of Mount Everest sold recently as a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle via . 😀

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Photograph of Mount Everest viewed from Kala Patthar trekking peak with labels marking names of the peaks, passes and mountain ridges.
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2024/12/09 18:11

Meanwhile, the Cicerone Press announced the Christmas offer on their prime hikers' and trekkers' guidebooks including my "Everest: A Trekker's Guide" and "Trekking in Ladakh". 😀

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Front cover of the "Everest: A Trekker's Guide" book published by Cicerone Press.
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