Around the world photography - Nepal (Way to Everest Base Camp) - #4
After some time in Kathmandu, I was excited to start my fourteen day hike to the Everest Base Camp.
I will spare you the loads of pictures I took along the way and will share only a few of the better ones instead.
Only the flight from Kathmandu to the airport in Lukla with only one runway was quite the adventure, that felt like something out of an Indiana Jones Movie.
But as beautiful the scenery overall was, soon I started asking myself, why I even took this trip, given that I'm from a country with the most beautiful mountains in the world anyways.
Questionable was also the whole tourism business around this region, where local people and animals from all ages have to carry heavy baggages either for their clients or to replenish the assortment of goods for the tea huts, where the hikers would retire to for the night. These people get paid starvation wages for their insalubrious ordeal.
Even though I was carrying my 12kg Backpack myself, I couldn't shake the feeling of taking part in the exploitation of those humans and animals.
sad when you realize that they are living bare minimum working that hard. Hope we can put everyone in the world on a level playing field one day.
Yes, I totally agree on that! Good to see people on here, who get it.
Those extreme inequalities all around the world and even within my own country (one of the richest in the world) started to bother me since I was a child.
There are things happening, like studies on an basic income for everyone etc. but it will take probably decades, to get things going, if at all.