The Himalayas means 'Abode of snow' and is the source of the great rivers sustaining the teeming population of the Indo-Gangetic plain. Anyone who sees those glittering giants for the first time cannot help feeling a little awe struck.

The Nepalese Sherpas in the south have always called Mount Everest Sagamartha; The Tibetans in the north refer to it as Chomolungma, "Godess Mother of the Earth"; but ever since surveyors discovered it was the world's highest mountain in 1852, it was named after the name of a former British Surveyor General - Everest.

Ama Dablam Everest from the Rongbuk Monastery Tibetan Boy Ben (on oxygen) and Tom
Makalu from just below the south summit on Everest Ben filming at Everest Base Camp (South side) Cho Oyu and Pumori at dawn from Camp 3 on the Lhotse Face Tom crossing a large crevasse in the Khumbu Ice Fall
Sonam, Geoffrey, Tom and Pasang Dawa on the summit of Ama Dablam Tom with Sony Z1 in the Khumbu Ice Fall View from Everest summit looking towards Darjeeling Ben in the Western Cwm (2006)
Tom and Ben posing on the summit of Everest Ben descending through the Khumbu Ice Fall Tom leaving Base Camp to go home Geoffrey and Tom sipping cocktails in Rum Doodles (Kathmandu)