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Photo of the Day
June 29, 2002

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Photo: Khumbu Icefield

Khumbu Icefield, Nepal, 1999

Photograph by Bobby Model

Sherpa Fura Gyaljen gingerly crosses a crevasse in Everest's Khumbu Icefield. A month before, the same crevasse had measured six inches (15 centimeters) wide.

(Photographed on assignment for the Everest/K2 Expedition, sponsored in part by the National Geographic Expeditions Council)

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