Spices for sale, Kathmandu, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia

A young boy in a checked shirt and red knitted hat in the doorway of a fruit and vegetable shop in Patan, Nepal

Woman stallholder holding the knife she uses to cut fruit for sale in the market in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her stall displays in baskets fruit, vegetables and dried fish.

Young boy shopkeeper in a fruit and vegetables shop in Patan, Nepal. He has old-fashioned scales for weighing the produce.

Nepal. Ritual, sonam/boom. Lobsangs cremation. Humla. traveler reached of journey! In freedom of infinite he is free from sorrow, fetters that bound thrown away, burning fever of life is no more,oesays dharmapada. Lobsang having spent whole life preparing moment of death, finds liberation on february 14, 1986. Extensive ritual follows cremation-traditionally a forty nine period, sonam lama rattles damaru. A small ritual drum to have origin in - shamanism. damaru, used as a tantric device to summon gods ward evil spirits, once made from human skull bone dreid human skin as a reminder of impermanence of body. Boom lama blows a kangling, a human thigh-bone horn. kangling is used in exorcism is capable of gods demons. Traditionally, best bones a kangling come from brahmans, particularly sixteen-year- brahman girls-or from tigers. On makeshift altar rest chhome, votive lamps filled with butter, cups of water, grains, tormas, holy food made of barley meal decorated with medallions of butter offered to gods. Alone, boom lama continues prayers of deceased

A brass plate full of offerings to God. Coconut, dried fish, black soya beans, duck eggs, oiled wicks, colour powder, bitten rice, betel nut, hand made rice paper incense, unhusked rice and flowers. Brahmayani Temple, Bhaktapur, Nepal

Harvesting rice, Annapurna Region, Nepal, Asia

A butchers shop on the Annapurna base Camp trek in the Nepalese Himalayas, Nepal Asia

A Nepalese man carrying a cockerel in a bag in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal, Asia

Produce seller in the historic centre of Patan-Lalitpur in Kathmandu Valey, Patan, Nepal, Asia

Agricultural landscape, women working in green terrace rice fields, in Upper Marsyangdi valley, Bahundanda, Lamjung District, Nepal, Asia

Agricultural landscape, green terrace rice fields, Upper Marsyangdi valley, Bahundanda, Lamjung District, Nepal, Asia

Farmhouse in agricultural landscape with green terrace rice fields, Chitre, Upper Kali Gandaki valley, Myagdi District, Nepal, Asia

Dried Nepalese red chilli peppers, Nepal, Asia

Nepalese man bringing eggs to the market, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Nepal, Kathmandu, Monkey sitting on wall eating from discarded rubbish at the Swayambunath Monkey Temple.

Yak eating from bowl at base camp, Everest, Khumbu region, Nepal, Everest, Khumbu region, Nepal