Caption: Date: 1964 Location: Namche, Solukhumbu. Description: Photo is taken looking north from the top of the Nangpa La pass (19050 ft.) The dry, arid, rolling Tibetan plateau is in the distance. Moisture from the Bay of Bengal rises and then falls as rain or snow, depending on season and altitude, on the southern slopes, leaving the rain shadow in Tibet, as seen in the photo. Keywords: Jim Fisher, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, countryside, landscape, named mountain
