Caption: Date: 1975-10
Location: Rara, Mugu
Description: Karma, a head porter (nike), preparing pumpkin with the aid of an ice axe. Barry Bishop, one of the successful summiters on the American Expedition to Everest in 1963 and later an editor at National Geographic did his PhD research in the Jumla area and Karma worked for him then. Keywords: Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, Peter Von Mertens, named person, portrait
