Nepal. Island Peak Trek. A visiting butcher demonstrates his skills to waiting Sherpa lady customers. Meat is a real treat for families in what is a basic vegetarian diet. The butcher has carried two whole leg loins of a Jak cow along the the animals liver [seen here] from Lukla town several hours walk away visiting all the small communities until there is nothing left of the meat. Even the bones will be used to make soup-broth then later pounded to dust to provide fertiliser

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The images in this collection are from a trek from Lukla airfield and town following the Dudh Kosi river and gorge to Island Peak in the Everest region in 2009.

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Size: 3985px × 6000px
Location: Nepal. Solu Khumbu, Mount Everest
Photo credit: © Allan Hartley / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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