After a serious days
 walk, we stumble up
 to  a lookout point
 above  Namche for 
 a first  glimpse of
 Everest. 

 The beast rises 
 above  the Lhotse 
 wall-itself on scale
 that its difficult to
 imagine.  The 
 setting sun ignites
 the mountain and 
 our  hearts.
 
1995