normally and right now the season is closing so normally this entire area here is just covered with tents. what we have now is a handful of climbers who have just come down off the mountain, and you have the cleanup crew. the scenery here is absolutely spa spectacular, you do begin to understand what motivates the people. the main draw is the challenge of trying to see if you can physically and mentally handle something like trying to summit mt. everest. if you look over in this direction you get an idea of just the spectacular mountain scape. over there you have the infamous everest ice fall, which climbers will go through to get to camp one, and then the other camps as they begin their expedition towards the summit of everest