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Avalanche near base camp
About this photograph
- Creator
- Ciprian Popoviciu
- Date created
- April 2008
- Location
- Nepal
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2009. All Rights Reserved
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- Journey to the top of the world: Climbing Mount Everest: This slideshow tells the story of a North Carolina adventurer's ascent of Mount Everest in photos, video, and text, including excerpts from his journal. (Page 10)
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Avalanches are frequent near the Everest Base Camp. This photograph shows an avalanche roaring down a mountainside close to the edge of the sprawling camp. Tents are positioned away from the potential path of avalanches, however the larger ones dust some of the tents and the climbers going through the icefalls.
