Dan, suffering from mountain lassitude, partakes of free O2 (only available in 1st class, scuttlers have to pass-out first)

Stir-fry on the Lhasa train

World's highest train - about to leave Lhasa

Crones, Lhasa

Potala Palace, Lhasa

Pilgrims

Lhasa Valley

Lhasa Valley

Restaurant boss with barman

Overturned lorry on Friendship Highway

A young Brahmaputra river starts its journey

Gyantse chorten

Local fuel & power plant

Xigatse Dzong (a mini-Potala Palace)

View of Xigatse from the khora

Prayer Wheels on the Xigatse Khora

Yellow hat monks at Xigatse Monastery

Xigatse Monastery

Tibetans doing a "khora" (pilgrimage), Xigatse Monastery

Decorated yaks

View from the Tong La pass on the Friendship Highway

Lorries trying to get round landslide, Friendship Highway

Friendship Highway (from Nepal to Tibet) cuts through a glacier

Biggest Tibetan stupa in Nepal... next stop the real thing

Pashupatinath, one of Hinduism's holiest places

Patan, Kathmandu Valley

Patan, Kathmandu Valley

Durbar Square, Kathmandu

Indian one-horned rhino (as seen from atop an elephant), Royal Chitwan Park, Nepal

Marpha, a village in the Kali Gandaki

Where Dan had yak-burger & fries (what else?)

Trader's house, Kagbeni, Mustang

Kali Gandaki - the world's deepest valley which links Tibet to Nepal & India

Jhargot, in the Kali Gandaki valley

Susy partaking in her favourite pastime

Muktinath temple, on the Tibetan side of the pass