In Pics: The Unsung Heroes of the Mount Everest Climb

Photographer Manoj Paudel captures the people and animals carrying supplies to and from the Mount Everest base camp.

Every year hundreds of people climb Mount Everest from Nepal in May. Apart from chartered helicopters, there are no means of transport up to the base camp, where trekkers start the gruelling climb up the highest mountain in the world.

The nearest regular commercial flights land at Lukla in Solukhumbhu district of northeastern Nepal – about 65 kilometres from base camp. However, all the climbers’ equipment and belongings have to be carried this distance by yaks, mules or porters.

This was first published on Third Pole and has been republished with permission.