by HagePhoto
Along with our new look, we’ve given our photo blog a makeover as well. HageLife will feature posts about our travels, adventures and what goes into producing our work. Photo sets from our assignment work have been moved over to our portfolio site. To kick off the redesign, we’ve pulled a few pictures from our […]
Categories: Lifestyle • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, Equipment, HageLIfe, Japan, nepal, New Zealand, Patagonia, Travel
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Agnes is a lover of animals. Mostly the furry four-legged kind, but there is a picture of her kissing an enormous slug in our files. If they are deemed ‘cute’, she has to hold them or scratch their ears. The yak along our treks in the Himalaya didn’t respond so well to this. And she […]
Categories: Travel • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, nepal, New Zealand, Patagonia, Photography
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Does anyone else do this? We have a huge four-drawer file cabinet in a back room that is chock full of maps, clippings and misc travel documents. Most of these files are hair brained ideas just waiting to happen. This is where we curate ideas for future projects. From ripped out magazine articles to […]
Categories: Travel • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, nepal, Patagonia, Southwest
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One of our favorite photographs from our stint in the Nepal Himalaya in this spring’s Patagonia catalog. Shot last fall while on a traverse of the Khumbu Himal, home of heavy hitters such as Makalu, Cho Oyu and Everest. We were making our way up to a pass and stuck behind a long line of […]
Categories: Adventure • Tags: Mountain, nepal, Photography Business, Stock
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There is a stiff 1,000 meter ascent to reach the Sherpa capital of Namche Bazaar, gateway to Nepal’s world-famous Khumbu Himal. We planned our arrival on a Friday afternoon when the village prepares for its well-known Saturday market. Groups of porters pass us on the steep trail, smoking cigarettes while talking on their cell phones. […]
Categories: Travel • Tags: Adventure, Mountain, nepal, People, Photography, Travel
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Our first views of Mt Everest were just minutes after take off from Kathmandu. The twin-engine Dornier Yak crawled up into the Himalaya enroute to Lukla and we spotted the distinct black pyramid of the Big E over our pilot’s shoulder. Since we have both been steeped in the legendary mountaineering stories, actually seeing the […]
Categories: Adventure • Tags: Mountain, nepal, Photography
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In between our Himalaya backpacking projects, we took time to explore a bit of Nepal. We’d heard about a small village perched high on a ridge called Bandipur, in between Kathmandu and Pokhara. A short 10-K ride on the outside of a jeep carried us a thousand meters above the valley to this small Newari […]
Categories: Travel • Tags: nepal, People, Photography, Travel
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As you’d probably think, the trails of Nepal’s Khumbu Himalaya is chock full of yaks. Well as we found out it’s not that simple. Yaks (གཡག) have a very specific habitation zone and don’t do well below 3,000 meters. Down low most of the ‘yaks’ you see are actually dzopkyos, yak-cow hybrids that cope with […]
Categories: Adventure • Tags: nepal, Photography, Travel
by HagePhoto
Our second project during our two-month stint in the Himalaya last fall was a backpacking trip across Nepal’s famed Khumbu region. This is the realm of the big 8,000 meter peaks; Makalu, Lhotse, Cho Oyu and Everest. Our two-week trek would take us from the Sherpa village of Namche Bazaar to nearly the foot of […]
Categories: Adventure • Tags: Mountain, nepal, Photography
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Thamel is the chaotic heart of Kathmandu. With hundreds of tiny streets and alleys, this tourist district can be pure madness. The smallest of cars scrape by each other, horns blaring, while sharing the choked street with cows, holy men and a sea of humanity. And through it all squeaks the signature rubber ducky sound […]
Categories: Travel • Tags: nepal, People, Photography