The Foreign Service Journal, June 2014

94 JUNE 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY JANICE ANDERSON n KHUMBU KHOLA VALLEY, NEPAL Enter your favorite, recent photograph to be featured in Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8 x 10”) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please submit a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. T his view of Nepal’s Khumbu Khola Valley, at an elevation of about 14,500 feet, was recorded six days into the Everest Base Camp Trek my husband and I took recently. It was a beautiful day, and the colors struck me as absolutely amazing. Cholatse and Arakam are the two peaks visible; at this point Everest was still elusive. A couple of days later, we reached Base Camp and a little beyond, finally climbing to 18,513 feet at Kala Pat- thar. The entire hike took 11 days, and we were fortunate (in late November/early December) to have few crowds and perfect weather. I took this photograph with a Canon PowerShot S100. n Janice Anderson joined the Foreign Service in 2006. Now in training for an assignment in Angola, she has served in Rwanda, India and Denmark. Her husband, Jerry, is the captain of an 800-foot commer- cial cargo ship that carries Christmas trees, pigs, cars, frozen food and anything else that will fit into a container back and forth from the United States mainland to Hawaii, Guam and China.