832-404047 - Golden statues of a man and a woman sitting and praying in the morning light, Bandipur, Nepal, Asia

809-8407 - Main street in the Nepalese city of Charikot, Nepal, Asia

1113-106171 - Nepalese woman in front of Annapurna, Pokhara, Nepal, Himalaya, Asia.

1178-34923 - Asian woman wearing traditional clothing

1131-1092B - Nepalese woman of the Tharu ethnic group, portrait, Chitwan, Nepal, Asia

1174-6420 - Tourists posing for cell phone selfie, Lukla, Khumbu, Nepal

1174-6419 - Caucasian couple standing in ornate doorway, Lukla, Khumbu region, Nepal

1174-6407 - Hikers backpacking on mountain, Everest, Khumbu region, Nepal, Everest, Khumbu region, Nepal

832-381456 - Nepalese woman with earrings and nose piercing, portrait, with Nargakot, Nepal, Asia

832-381460 - Nepalese woman, portrait, Bandipur, Nepal, Asia

832-381494 - Nepalese woman, Portrait, Bandipur, Nepal, Asia

832-381744 - Woman working on felt shoes, Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

832-382079 - A woman is working at pottery in the streets, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

832-381459 - Old Nepalese woman, furrows in her face, ear jewellery, portrait, near Panauti, Nepal, Asia

832-381076 - Nepalese woman, portrait, Pokhara, Nepal, Asia

832-379956 - Agricultural landscape, women working in green terrace rice fields, in Upper Marsyangdi valley, Bahundanda, Lamjung District, Nepal, Asia

832-379966 - Native woman spinning sheep's wool with traditional spinning wheel in front of house, Ghandruk, Kaski District, Nepal, Asia

832-379970 - Native woman weaving material on loom, open air, Jhong, Mustang District, Nepal, Asia

832-379969 - Native woman spinning sheep's wool with traditional spinning wheel in front of house, Ghandruk, Kaski District, Nepal, Asia

832-379965 - Young woman and son looking out of farmhouse window, Purang, Mustang District, Nepal, Asia

832-379959 - Portrait, old, wrinkled native woman, wearing pink shirt, Ghandruk, Kaski District, Nepal, Asia

832-379968 - Native woman knotting carpet using sheep's wool in front of house, Ghandruk, Kaski District, Nepal, Asia

832-379967 - Native woman walking along Mani Wall and spinning prayer wheels, Kagbeni, Mustang District, Nepal, Asia

1262-184 - Nepalese woman and boats of Phewa Lake, Pokhara, Nepal, Asia

1131-1090 - Nepalese couple working in a terrace field, Dhampus Mountain village, Nepal, Asia

1131-1086 - Street Market near Taumadhi Tole square, Bhaktapur, Nepal, Asia

1131-1092 - Nepalese woman of the Tharu ethnic group, portrait, Chitwan, Nepal, Asia

1262-165 - Tibetan people at Boudhanath Stupa (Bodhnath Stupa), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

733-7585 - Tourists watching sunrise from Sarangkot, Pokhara, Nepal, Asia

733-7548 - Porter crossing a suspension bridge decorated in Tibetan prayer flags, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Khumbu Valley, Nepal, Asia

1131-1033 - Young Nepalese women working in an open Tailor shop in Bandipur, Tanahun district, Nepal, Asia

1225-729 - Pack horses on their way down cross a wire bridge, Tzum Valley, Nepal, Asia

1225-697 - Woman panning rice (winnowing) so the unwanted husks fly out of the pan leaving the grains of rice inside, Dolghat, Nepal, Asia

1225-519 - Nepali women working in tea houses in the Everest region, Nepal, Asia

1225-478 - An historical Newari farmhouse in the traditional village of Nuwakot, Langtang Region, Nepal, Asia

1225-483 - An historic Newari farmhouse in the traditional village of Nuwakot, Langtang Region, Nepal, Asia

1225-479 - An historical Newari farmhouse in the traditional village of Nuwakot, Langtang Region, Nepal, Asia

1225-480 - A group of tourists sit with their scooters in the historical temple square in Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

832-343609 - Produce seller in the historic centre of Patan-Lalitpur in Kathmandu Valey, Patan, Nepal, Asia

832-356935 - Market booth in the old town of Kathmandu, Nepal

832-291114 - Women carrying bundles of firewood, snow covered mountain peaks at back, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Khumbu Himal, Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

832-358328 - Nyatapola Temple, Taumadhi Tole, old town of Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, Nepal

832-358327 - Woman gets drinking water in the old town of Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, Nepal

1161-7870 - Female dancer at cultural event in Bhaktapur, Nepal

1161-7876 - Namaste welcome greeting from women in traditional clothing at home in the foothills of the Himalayas at Pokhara in Nepal

1161-7873 - Women at their home in the foothills of the Himalayas at Pokhara in Nepal

1161-7874 - Women and children living in the foothills of the Himalayas at Pokhara in Nepal

1161-7871 - Male and female dancers at cultural event in Bhaktapur, Nepal

1161-7858 - Nepalese dancers at cultural event in Bhaktapur, Nepal

1161-7859 - Nepalese dancers at cultural event in Bhaktapur, Nepal

1161-7864 - Nepalese locals gathering in the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal

1161-1186 - Nepalese woman walking past Bouddhanath Stupa in Nepal at the Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site.

1161-863 - Woman stallholder holding the knife she uses to cut fruit for sale in the market in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her stall displays in baskets fruit, vegetables and dried fish.

1161-830 - Friends two women and a baby, Patan, Nepal

1161-1228 - Local grey-haired woman laughing in Nepal

1161-651 - Holy woman sitting on the ground at the Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

832-62021 - Painter painting a Thanka or Thangka painting, Boudnath, Kathmandu, Nepal, South Asia

911-9318 - A Nepalese woman sirdar carrying a load in the Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

911-9320 - A Nepalese woman in traditional clothing weaving cloth on a hand loom in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal, Asia

911-9312 - A Nepalese woman in the Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

911-9330 - Woman carrying wood to be used as fuel for cooking by Nepalese locals living in the Annapurna Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

911-9325 - Women carrying wood to be used as fuel for cooking by Nepalese locals living in the Annapurna Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

911-9321 - A Nepalese woman in traditional clothing weaving cloth on a hand loom in the Himalayan foothills, Nepal, Asia

832-51350 - Women and children, Taumadhi square, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia

832-51358 - Men and women talking on the Taumadhi square, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia

832-51331 - Women sitting on a step, Pashupatinath, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

832-51345 - People watching a procession, steps of the Nyatapola Pagoda, Taumadhi Square, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia

832-51352 - Women and children, Nyatapola Pagoda, Taumadhi square, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia

832-51428 - Men, women and children, Taumadhi square, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia

1196-194 - Anuradha Koirala holds up her CNN Hero of the Year 2010 award as she is warmly greeted upon her return. Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal. A woman whose group has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery has been named the 2010 CNN Hero of the Year. Anuradha Koirala was chosen by the public in an online poll that ran for eight weeks on CNN.com. ?Human trafficking is a crime, a heinous crime, a shame to humanity,? Koirala said after being introduced as one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010. ?I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters

1196-50 - Anuradha Koirala, proclaimed winner of CNN Hero of the Year 2010, warmly greeted upon her return. Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal. A woman whose group has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery has been named the 2010 CNN Hero of the Year. Anuradha Koirala was chosen by the public in an online poll that ran for eight weeks on CNN.com. ?Human trafficking is a crime, a heinous crime, a shame to humanity,? Koirala said after being introduced as one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010. ?I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters

1196-191 - Butter lamp offerings to the Bagmati River flowing next to Brahmayani Temple. Newar Village Women wears "Haku Patasi" to the Temple. (Haku Patasi is garb worn by Newari woman). Bhaktapur, Nepal

1196-164 - Community and home based care service is one of the critical care and support services provided to people living with HIV in Nepal. CHBC Teams provide basic health services, social, emotional and spiritual support, reinforcing the concept of ?positive living? and reducing stigma and discrimination in the community. Doti, Nepal

1196-73 - Some religious people reach Brahmayani temple measuring their body length. To do so, a person prostrates on the ground and extends his clasped hands above his head. An assistant puts a few grains of rice at the end of the clasped hands as a marking point. Then, the man steps to this marking point and then prostrates again. Bhaktapur, Nepal

1196-148 - Nepal. Of footprints in forest that of is most large of contemplation, contemplation of death impermanence strongest impact buddha in udanavarg

1196-143 - Community and Home Based Care (CHBC) teams also provide comprehensive care and support services including Prevention of Mother to Child Tansmission (PMTCT). Dhangadi, Nepal

1196-245 - Some religious people reach Brahmayani temple measuring their body length. To do so, a person prostrates on the ground and extends his clasped hands above his head. An assistant puts a few grains of rice at the end of the clasped hands as a marking point. Then, the man steps to this marking point and then prostrates again. Bhaktapur, Nepal

986-55 - Woman Willowing Maize. Annapurna Trail near Pokhara.

986-56 - Woman Willowing Maize. Annapurna Trail near Pokhara.

755-74 - Old woman lighting butter lamps in front of Buddha statues draped with new silk scarves, in a small temple, at the Boudha or Bodhnath stupa, Tibetan New Year (Lhosar), Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

640-784 - Women and children walking on a country road, carrying bundles of firewood, Chautara, north of Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

755-69 - Two women making offerings (puja) before dawn by the Bagmati river, outside the Shiva temple during the Hindu festival of Shivaratri, Pashupatinath, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

615-130 - Portrait of two Sherpa women of the mountains in traditional clothing, Solu Khumbu, Nepal, Asia

755-18 - Women loading up, using dokos to carry loads, in Durbar Square, Patan, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia

29-4689 - Ploughing potato fields with yaks below old Langtang village, Langtang, Nepal, Asia

755-73 - Old woman lighting butter lamps in a small temple on the north side of Boudha or Bodhnath stupa, Tibetan New Year (Lhosar), Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

755-118 - Hindu temple with a five storey pagoda roof built in 1392, Kumbeshwar temple, Patan, Kathmandu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nepal, Asia