Namche Bazaar village in 1981, Kongde Ri / Kwangde Ri mountain, Himalayas, Nepal, Asia
In this 1981 photograph, Namche Bazaar (11,220 feet elevation) was a small village. The mountain of Kongde Ri (sometimes called Kwangde Ri; 20,320 feet elevation) rises 4 kilometers to the west, in the Himalaya of eastern Nepal, Asia.