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  • Robert Hahn contemplates the karst cliffs rising above him on the Nam Ou River near Muang Ngoi, Laos.
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  • A young man shows off his moves at a party in Ban Huay Phouk, Laos as other partygoers, and young girls in the window, watch. The celebration was hoped to bring good luck to the woman of the house, who was suffering from cancer and whom modern western medicine had failed to treat.
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  • Women prepare white thread bracelets (representing good luck) at a celebration held at the home of a woman suffering from cancer in Ban Huay Phouk, Laos. According to her son, modern western medicine had failed to cure her so it was time to try a more traditional treatment.
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  • A large pile of fish caught by a group of Lao men on the Nam Ou River in Phou Den Din National Protected Area, Laos. The area is frequented by hunters and fishermen who camp and poach wild game within park boundaries despite (or perhaps without knowledge) that this is technically illegal.
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  • Women collect rock river weed (Cladophora sp.) on the shore of the Nam Ou River in Ban Phu Muang, Laos. The green algae is commonly eaten as a delicacy, either boiled or dried in sheets.
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  • Sunset over traditional thatched roof huts, trees, and bamboo in Ban Sop Khip, Laos, a village that will be completely inundated by Nam Ou River Dam #5.
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  • A Chinese worker with a SinoHydro helmet flashes the peace (V) sign for a photo at the construction site for Dam #5 on the Nam Ou River, Laos.
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  • Men adjust the position of the stilts for a new house being built in Ban Pak Luang, Laos. The raised stilts help protect from mud and floods common during the rainy season. The village would only suffer minor inundation by proposed Dam #3 (whose construction has not yet commenced).
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  • Robert Hahn carries his packraft down the original river channel - now a construction site for Dam #5 - on the Nam Ou River, Laos.
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  • A floating Vietnamese mechanical gold dredge leaves a wake of tailing piles in the Nam Ou River, Laos.
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  • Robert Hahn (center) chats with Vietnamese workers, while drinking a Vietnamese beer, on a mechanical gold dredge floating on the Nam Ou River, Laos. Six men live on the vessel for months, rotating throughout the day and working in pairs to keep the machine in constant operation.
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  • Children play and slide down split bamboo mats on the beach in Muang Hat Hin, Laos.
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  • A man adjusts the (boat) propeller on a micro hydro turbine in the flow of the Nam Ou River at Ban Sop Kha, Laos. The turbines are used by villages all along the river to generate electricity, at least during the dry season when the water level is low enough to mount them to the river bed.
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  • A mother plays music from her cellphone while her son and two of his friends watch television at home in Ban Sop Kha, Laos. The electronics are powered by batteries (right) charged by micro hydro turbines jury-rigged into the Nam Ou River.
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  • A boy poses proudly with his diving mask, spear gun, and homemade string instrument in Ban Huay Phouk, Laos.
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  • Women and children stay warm by a fire and process reeds used to manufacture brooms in Ban Had Dan, Laos. The clusters, wrapped with bamboo and made into brooms, are sold to neighboring Vietnam and fetch 3,000 kip ($0.37) - a cottage industry in this village. The village would only be partially inundated by proposed Dam #3 (whose construction has not yet commenced).
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  • A man is lost in thought at his home while being asked questions about Nam Ou River Dam #6 which will inundate his village Ban Kor Man Mai (?), Laos. He expressed sadness over the flooding of the riverside funeral sites, but - having had two children die due to lack of medical care - appreciated the value of the road and other services promised at his future, government provided home.
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  • The houses and haze of Kathmandu, Nepal, as seen through prayer flags outside Swayambhunath Temple.
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  • A bird of prey soars over the houses and haze of Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • The houses and haze of Kathmandu, Nepal, as seen from Swayambhunath Temple.
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  • Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Metalsmiths hammer gilded metal in a workshop on the temple grounds in an effort to restore and replace all the metalwork in Swayambhunath, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Colorfully painted Tibetan Buddhist mantras, or prayers in the rock walls at the base of Swayambhunath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • The snow-capped peaks of the Himalaya rise above the clouds, as seen from a commercial jet flying over Nepal.
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  • Detail of Boudhanath Stupa and prayer flags, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Boudhanath Stupa at dusk, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Young monks study Tibetan at the Buddhist monastery in Lukla,  Khumbu (Everest) region, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • A man walks through heavy mist past the gate to Tengboche Monastery (and an abandoned shoe), Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • The steep, fluted face of Ombigaichan as seen from Chhukung Ri, Khumbu (Everest) region, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Liana Welty is dwarfed by the massive North Face of Ama Dablam (6848m), as seen from above Dingboche along the trail to Everest, Khumbu region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • The trekker lodges of Gorak Shep, besides the Khumbu Glacier at the base of Everest, Khumbu region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Kangtega (6780m) at sunset, as seen from Dingboche, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Sunset on Ama Dablam (6848m), as seen from Dingboche, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • The town of Phortse in snow, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Young men, backlit by car headlights, walk down a dusty street in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • A man casts his fishing rod from a tourist rental boat on the shore of Lake Phewa Tal in Pokhara, Nepal.
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  • A teacher points to his students during an English lesson at the school in Chhomrong, Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal.
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  • A young boy shouts at his friends through a window in the village of Landruk along the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Liana Welty walks across a wood suspension bridge along the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Nepali trekking guide Bibek Gurung hikes past a large waterfall in the Annapurna Sanctuary, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Gurung lodge owner in Deorali, along the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • A Tharu boy holds up a platter of potato samosa ready to be deep fried at a village on the southern edge of Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
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  • A local bus loaded with passengers travels down the southern edge of Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
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  • Liana Welty sits on the hanging vines of a strangler fig in Royal Chitwan National Park, Terai, Nepal.
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  • Soldiers march down a jeep track in Royal Chitwan National Park, Terai, Nepal. Though there are over 2,000 soldiers assigned to bases inside the park, the military has been largely ineffective at curbing poaching, a particularly dangerous threat to the Asian one-horned rhinoceros population for which the park is best known.
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  • Liana Welty follows her wildlife guide down a jeep track flanked by high grasses in Royal Chitwan National Park, Terai, Nepal.
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  • A woman prays and lights butter lamps in ritual offering during Buddha Jayanti (Buddha's birthday) at Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal on May 9, 2009.
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  • A father and son, holding hands and backlit by car headlights, walk down a dusty street at night in the dark in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal following the celebration of Buddha Jayanti (Buddha's birthday) on May 9, 2009.
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  • Female trekking guides and lodge owners laugh together around a fire outside the lodges at Deorali along the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal. The guides work for 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking, a women owned company based in Pokhara that employs and empowers Nepali women.
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  • Trekking guide Bibek Gurung walks across a metal suspension footbridge at the hillside village of Tikhedhunga along the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • The houses and haze of Kathmandu, Nepal, as seen through prayer flags outside Swayambhunath Temple.
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  • A couple walks together on the grounds of Swayambhunath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • The houses and haze of Kathmandu, Nepal, as seen from Swayambhunath Temple.
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  • Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) at Swayambhunath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • A white dog lies curled up between stone pagodas at Swayambhunath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • PIle of rolled up Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags for sale at Swayambhunath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Butter lamp burns as offerings at Swayambhunath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Handmade noodles dry on a mat at a home in Chhomrong, along the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Liana Welty and her guide Bibek Gurung cross the Bhurungdi Khola River below Hille, Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal.
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  • Two children laugh together on a large boulder below the village of Hille along the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • A Buddhist monk and a Tibetan woman wearing a face mask walk, holding prayer beads, around the base of Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Boudhanath Stupa and prayer flags, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Crowds of worshipers endlessly swirl around the base of Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Boudhanath Stupa at dusk, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • School children spin a giant prayer wheel on their way back home from school in Phakding, Khumbu (Everest) region, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Forest shrouded in mist at dawn above Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Clouds envelope Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Tengboche Monastery gate and prayer flags in heavy mist, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Protected rhododendron forest at dawn on the grounds of Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Protected rhododendron forest at dawn on the grounds of Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Buddhist monks shield their eyes from the sun as they look out towards Khumbi Yul Lha rising above Tengboche Monastery at sunrise in Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Copper prayer wheels at Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Hanging silk embroideries inside Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Ama Dablam (r-l), Ombigaichan, Kang Leyamu and Island Peak, as seen from Chhukung Ri, Khumbu (Everest) region, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Large cairns serve as a memorial, each in memory of a climber dead on Everest and other peaks in the region, above Duglha, Khumbu region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal. Ama Dablam rises prominently in the distance.
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  • The trekker lodges of Gorak Shep, besides the Khumbu Glacier at the base of Everest, Khumbu region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • The trekker lodges of Gorak Shep, besides the Khumbu Glacier at the base of Everest, Khumbu region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • A yak in a snow storm in Gorak Shep, the last trekker lodges before Everest Base Camp, in the Khumbu, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Porter hut in Lobuche, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Porter hut in Lobuche, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Pack horse in the mist, Lobuche, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Ama Dablam (6848m) seen through the window of the restroom at a tourist lodge in Duglha, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Yak carrying their own feed travel down the trail to Everest Base Camp, Khumbu region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Fields delineated by stone walls in the Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • Entrance gate to Tengboche Monastery, Khumbu (Everest) region, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya Mountains, Nepal.
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  • A family, backlit by car headlights, walks down a dusty street in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • A Buddhist monk and others pray silently as other worshippers gather at Boudhanath Stupa during Buddha Jayanti (Buddha's birthday) in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 9, 2009.
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  • A villager in a small wooden boat floats alone on the still surface of Lake Phewa Tal in Pokhara, Nepal. Fish farms are visible in the foreground.
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  • Three seated young men look out over Lake Phewa Tal and passing boats in Pokhara, Nepal.
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  • Piles of partially burned and buried garbage waste away on the shore of Lake Phewa Tal in Pokhara, Nepal.
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  • Men stand among the small rental boats on the shore of Lake Phewa Tal as sun beams filter through the clouds in Pokhara, Nepal.
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  • View of the Annapurna massif over the slate roofs of the traditional Gurung village of Landruk in the Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal.
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  • An elderly woman picks kernels off of dried corn cobs at her home in Landruk, Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal.
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  • A man carries a stone slab on his shoulder into Landruk, Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal as part of an initiative by the local committee to renovate the trail through the village.
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  • A man carries a stone slab on his shoulder into Landruk, Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal as part of an initiative by the local committee to renovate the trail through the village.
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  • A man carries a stone slab on his shoulder to Landruk, Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal as part of an initiative by the local committee to renovate the trail through the village.
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  • Farms and terraced fields on the steep hillsides of the Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal.
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  • A sign welcomes trekkers to Annapurna Base Camp, the end goal of the Annapurna Sanctuary trek, in the Himalaya Mountains, Nepal. Annapurna South rises in the distance.
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  • A woman hangs clothes to dry outside her home in Chhomrong, Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal.
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