Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:28 pm
OK, previous my 2 images were of a man burning rubbish infront of the 8000m Mitre Peak, and the haze of a 7500 horsepower dragster polluting the air...and now I bring you the battered wreckage of a Russian helicopter at Everest Base Camp (on the Nepalese side of Everest)!
It crashed there in 2003 during the 50th anniversary of Sherpa Tenzing and Sir Edmund Hillary's successful bid to reach the summit.
I trekked here in Oct 2004 and what was left of the helicopter was this...
http://www.pbase.com/scubamoo/image/74969163
(scanned in slide)
Dave
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