Description of Slides

Lesson 1 slides

  1. Highest Mountains on Earth
  2. Alpine slopes (foreground ~29,000 feet)
  3. Eroding boulders, stones, silt into rivers (14,000-15,000)
  4. 4-Steep gorges-treacherous crossings (~13,000)
  5. Steep valleys/unstable ground
  6. Birch and cedar forest on Northern slopes (~12-13,000 feet)
  7. Pine forests on sunny southern slopes

    Lesson 2 slides
  1. 12-13 year old girls
  2. 9 year old boy
  3. 6 and 9 year old sisters
  4. Sherpa children
  5. Grandmother by her white washed house
  6. Grandmother with her husband (trader and former Everest guide) and daughters
  7. Daughter’s house in a row of houses
  8. 33-year-old man/works as guide

    Lesson 3 slides
  1. Planing wood, wall of traditional house
  2. Dirt and dung seals stone wall
  3. White washing will follow
  4. Support for mat roof
  5. Grass mats held with stones
  6. Slate roof
  7. Neighboring houses
  8. More modern construction of lodges
  9. Stones are squared
  10. More wood for larger windows
  11. Foundation for modern lodge

    Lesson 3 continued slides
  1. Pots and pans inside a house
  2. Beginning of a school day
  3. Morning chores
  4. At school
  5. Principal’s
  6. Student desk
  7. Students at their desk
  8. Geography lesson, Nawari teacher from Kathmandu
  9. No heat or lights, walls are chinked
  10. American teachers visit Hilary funded school in Thame

    Lesson 4 slides
  1. Yaks grazing on high(14,000 feet) pasture
  2. Zopkios carry trekkers’ supplies
  3. Wood for fuel
  4. Summer cabin, walled garden keeps animals out
  5. Woman drying crop in village
  6. Woman weighing butter at market
  7. Family gathers left-over sand near power plant pond
  8. Power turbines need settling pond for heavily silted streams and rivers
  9. Terraced villages on "flat" ledge
  10. Market at Namche
  11. Village in high valley
  12. Volleyball tournament-Some people walk for 5 days to attend.

    Lesson 5 slides
  1. Traditional houses and modern lodge
  2. Path between fields
  3. Animals live on the bottom floor-people live on the second story-ladder is inside
  4. Walled fields keep animals out (river gorge above center)
  5. Wall up close

    Lesson 6 slides
  1. Wedding procession
  2. Village watches
  3. Monasteries are for Monks
  4. Inside Monastery foyer
  5. Buddha
  6. Inside main room, large drum hanging
  7. Mask to scare away bad spirits
  8. Scared books of Buddhism, monks robes await prayer time
  9. People pay monks to carve "monie" stones with prayers to gods. A prayer goes up when anyone walks by.
  10. Cairn built at power spot
  11. Prayer flags fly over dangerous place