Tim stops to siphon the python (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Looking across the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) river from the Friendship Highway.
Mark gives a young student a photography lesson (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Petr, Chris, Mark and Tim during a lunch stop en route (Photo: Bunter Anson)
The long road by jeep through Tibetan hills (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Leg stretching at a pass along the Friendship Highway.
The town square at Lhatse.
Fancy hotel with dodgy plumbing in Lhatse (Photo: Bunter Anson)
The Gyatso La, the high point on the Friendship Highway at 5220m.
A bleak landscape at the Gyatso La.
Our driver at the Gyatso La.
The Friendship Highway by Toyota Landcruiser (Photo: Bunter Anson)
A lonely stretch of road along the Friendship Highway.
Driving up to a high pass on the approach to Everest (Photo: Bunter Anson)
A dirt track snakes up to a high pass on the approach to Everest (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Cho Oyu seen from a high pass on the approach to Everest (Photo: Bunter Anson)
A yak skull marks the high pass on the approach to Everest, with the Everest range ahead (Photo: Bunter Anson)
A Toyota Landcruiser descends the other side of the high pass (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Roadworks on the approach to Everest as the Chinese build their tarmac road all the way to Base Camp (Photo: Bunter Anson)
First view of Everest enshrouded in cloud up the Rongbuk valley (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Passing a Tibetan village on the return from Everest Base Camp (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Driving through desert on the return from Everest (Photo: Bunter Anson)
A dirt track through Tibet (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Driving on the Tibetan plateau, with snow-capped mountains on the horizon (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Typical Tibetan house near Tingri (Photo: Bunter Anson)
The Tibetan landscape near Tingri.
Mark, Chris, Ian, Tim and Aussie John take lunch in Tingri (Photo: Bunter Anson)
I'm looking better already (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Waiting at the lunch stop in Tingri (Photo: Bunter Anson)
After lunch, the road stretches on across the Tibetan plateau (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Wind driven prayer wheels.
Tibetan village beyond Tingri (Photo: Bunter Anson)
The first of many roadworks approaching Nyalam (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Rubble from a dynamite explosion blocks the road (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Approaching the border, the road descends into a forested gorge (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Misty gorge approaching Zhangmu (Photo: Bunter Anson)
More roadworks block the way (Photo: Bunter Anson)
The Friendship Bridge, on the Nepalese border.
Across the Nepalese border in Kodari (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Mic looking cheerful at the border checkpoint (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Chris waits for our bus in Kodari (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Mic checks he has the horsey girl's number (Photo: Bunter Anson)
On the bus and ready to depart (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Looking up the Bhote Kosi river past the houses of Kodari on the Nepalese side of the border, to the buildings of Zhangmu, the Tibetan border town in cloud on the far hillside.
House and rice terraces on the road to Kathmandu, Nepal (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Bunter and Tim at lunch during the return journey to Kathmandu.
The Bhote Kosi river, Nepal (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Unloading the bus back at the Summit Hotel, Kathmandu (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Our support staff - Dawa, Sangye, Nima Dendi, Pasang and Kaji - back at the Summit Hotel in Kathmandu.
Us with our Sherpa staff back in Kathmandu.
(Photo: Bunter Anson)
Our Rum Doodle's foot (Photo: Bunter Anson)
Tim surrounded by feet in Rum Doodle's (Photo: Bunter Anson)
