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Radek Kucharski
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Trekking guidebook author, whose books were published by Cicerone Press (Everest and Ladakh). Tour leader by passion and profession. Keen photographer since childhood. I'll appreciate, if you visit my portfolio at pics.born2trek.com. Thanks!
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A broken, dead tree trunk standing in the forest just below the summit of Wielka Rycerzowa mountain in Żywiec Beskids, set in the wintry landscape. Seen on a snowy, frosty, foggy day.

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#Beskids #mountains #Carpathians #monochromephotography #winterlandscape #winterinpoland
Monochrome, greyscale photograph of a broken, dead tree trunk standing in the forest just below the summit of Wielka Rycerzowa mountain in Żywiec Beskids, set in the wintry landscape. Seen on a snowy, frosty, foggy day. Beskid Mountains, Carpathians. Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland | © Radek Kucharski / pics.born2trek.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Boudhanath, the largest stupa in Nepal located in the Buddhist religious complex in the capital, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the main Kathmandu Valley attractions

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#monochromearchitecture #monochromephotography #bnwarchitecture #travelphotography
A monochrome, grayscale photograph. It is the upper part of Boudha Stupa, a Buddhist, sacred building. It is the largest stupa in Nepal located in Buddhist religious complex, UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the main Kathmandu Valley tourist attractions. The upper part of the dome and the gilded, golden spire with Buddhist prayer flags stretched from the top. Eyes on the cubic part, the harmika, represent all-seeing, wisdom eyes of the Buddha. Seen late in the afternoon on a clear, blue-sky, autumn day in the warm light of the setting sun. Monochrome, greyscale photo. Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal | © Radek Kucharski / pics.born2trek.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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The Tara Air Dornier Do-228-212 aircraft speeding down the runway of the Lukla Airport. It is a high five-thousander, Nupla in the background.

#LuklaAirport #aviation #Himalayas #mountainphotography #trekkinginnepal #everestregion #visitnepal2026 #gotonepal
Colour photograph of an airport set in a mountainous area with a small aircraft aparently moving quickly from right to left down a sloping runway. It is the Tara Air Dornier Do-228-212 aircraft speeding down the runway of the Lukla Airport. There is a significant mountain in the background: Nupla (5885m). © Radek Kucharski / pics.born2trek.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Mount #Everest, Lhotse, Makalu & many other high Himalayan Peaks. Gokyo with its lake is below as well as Ngozumpa Glacier, the longest in the #Himalayas. Photographed in November 2024, available for downloads and prints from my gallery at #PicFair, here: buff.ly/qvapO2e. © Radek Kucharski #trekking
A colour photograph of some high mountain peaks photograph against deep-blue sky with just two tiny clouds, a lake below and gray, debris-covered glacier across from left to right. It is the view from Renjo La, the mountain pass above Gokyo in Khumbu, the Everest Region, photographed on a clear, blue sky, autumn day. Mountain panorama consists of eight-thousanders: Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and other Himalayan peaks including Changtse, Nutptse and Taboche. Ngozumpa, the longest glacier in Himalayas is below, and Gokyo settlement sits on its lateral moraine and the Gokyo Lake, Dudh Pokhari shore. Three Passes Trek, post-monsoon trekking season. Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Solukhumbu, Koshi Province, Nepal. © Radek Kucharski / pics.born2trek.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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My sloth bear photographed in the wild last December, at #Chitwan National Park in #Nepal, is available for download and as prints at #Picfair, here: buff.ly/JpkoDgI.

#wildlifeofnepal #mammalsofnepal #nepalwildlife #bearsinthewild #wildlifephotography #nationalpark
Colour photograph of a sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) foraging in high grasses in the wild at Chitwan National Park, a World Heritage Site in the Terai Region of Chitwan District, Bagmati Province, Nepal. Photographed last December. © Radek Kucharski / pics.born2trek.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Makalu, Earth's fifth highest mountain with its impressive West Face, seen from Renjo La, the beautiful spot en-route the Three Passes Trek in the #Everest Region of #Nepal.

For downloads & prints, check my gallery: buff.ly/qvapO2e. For the route description, see Cicerone Press #trekking guidebook.
Colour photograph of Eight-thousander Makalu seen from Renjo La, the mountain pass above Gokyo in Khumbu, the Everest Region, photographed on a clear, blue sky, autumn day. The West Face, north-northwest ridge, Makalu La and Kangchungtse also known as Makalu II. Three Passes Trek, post-monsoon trekking season. Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Solukhumbu, Koshi Province, Nepal
January 11, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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I will speak about #trekking in the #Everest Region of #Nepal this coming Wednesday at Sklep Podróżnika in Warsaw.

And this is Mount Everest in this photo, seen from Renjo La, one of the mountain passes described in my Cicerone Press guidebook to the region. | © Radek Kucharski / img.born2trek.com.
Photo of Mount Everest seen from Renjo La, the mountain pass above Gokyo in Khumbu, the Everest Region. South Summit on the Southeast Ridge, West Ridge, North Face, Southwest Face of Everest can be recognised, and Nuptse is to the right of the highest mountain.Photographed on a clear, blue sky, autumn day. Three Passes Trek, post-monsoon trekking season. Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Solukhumbu, Koshi Province, Nepal
January 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Mount Everest seen at sunset from one of the best trekkers' accessible viewpoint in the Khumbu Region of Nepal: Gokyo Ri.

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#mountainphotography #landscapephotography #wallart #wallartphotography #MountEverest #landscape
Colour photograph of Mount Everest (Sagarmatha / Chomolungma; 8850m) as seen at sunset from Gokyo Ri. Everest Base Camp Trek, Everest Region, Solukhumbu, Nepal. The partially glacier and snow covered mountain is orange in colour and looks warm lit by the warm rays of the setting sun. © Radek Kucharski / pics.born2trek.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Sniffs at Bamburgh beach, Northumberland. There winter days are bringing some lovely colourful sunrises

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Morning sunrise at Bamburgh beach and dogs having a post swim sniff on the sand
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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#WaterfallWednesday

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A beautiful, lush, verdant setting shares several tiers of waterfalls cascading downward.
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Glowing tupelo swamp

#photography #naturephotography #landscape
Staggered cypress and tupelo trees standing in calm water, their trunks and autumn colors echoed on the water's surface.
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Lhotse, the South Face. A sunset view from Deboche in the Everest Region.

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#trekkingphotography #trekking #photography #trekkinginnepal #sunsetphotography #mountainscape #landscapephotography
A colour photograph of a mountain lit by the warm rays of the setting sun. It is Lhotse (8516m) with its famous South Face. Everest Trek, Solukhumbu, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal.
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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As a #travel inspiration or memory…

A gift for someone or oneself…

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It's the eight-thousander Dhaulagiri in #Nepal on the photo

#mountainscape #landscape #Himalayas #wallart
A colour photograph of a mountainscape. Early morning view of Dhaulagiri from Ghorepani (ca 2900m). The eight-thousander is located in the distance of 39 km, as the crow flies, and the bottom of the Kali Gandaki valley, which separates the giant Dhaulagiri and the viewpoint, is at the altitude of about 1250 m.a.s.l, deep below. A springtime scene, with a white blooming magnolia tree and some red rhododendrons in the foreground. Ghorepani, Annapurna Himal. Myagdi District, Gandaki Province, Nepal.
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I had a talk about #Nepal at the hospitable Sklep Podróżnika bookshop in Warsaw last Wednesday evening. I'm glad that so many people are interested in the country and were willing to spend the time at the bookshop to listen to me and watch my photographs – thank you very much!

#NepalNow #travel
A colour photograph of an elaborately carved wooden window of the brick-built Patan Palace in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. © Radek Kucharski / img.born2trek.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Piece of Berlin Wall in Reykjavík

It is located near Höfði, the house where the Reykjavík Summit was organised during the Cold War. The painted artwork created by Jakob Wagner.

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#Reykjavík #Iceland #coldwar #ReykjavíkSummit
Piece of Berlin Wall in Reykjavík, located near Höfði, the house where the Reykjavík Summit was organised during the Cold War. Mural, the painted artwork, by Jakob Wagner. Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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"Selfie with the stupa"

Boudha Stupa, the largest stupa in #Nepal, a Buddhist religious complex and UNESCO World Heritage Site in #Kathmandu, photographed during my latest visit.

Available in my #Picfair gallery at buff.ly/IjFKGg4 (downloads).

#travelphotography #Buddhism #streetphotography
Boudhanath, the Boudha Stupa, the largest stupa in Nepal, Buddhist religious complex, UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the main Kathmandu Valley tourist attractions. The upper part of the dome and the gilded, golden spire with Buddhist prayer flags stretched from the top. Eyes on the cubic part, the harmika, represent all-seeing, wisdom eyes of the Buddha. Seen in the afternoon on a clear, blue-sky, early autumn day. Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal
November 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I will speak about Nepal next Wednesday at Sklep Podróżnika in Warsaw and will show some of my photographs of this beautiful country. It has been 25 years the past summer since I first visited Nepal, and I've been going there frequently ever since!

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#Warsaw #traveltalk #travel
South Face of the eight-thousander Lhotse, with a lenticular cloud above its summits, viewed at sunrise from Pangboche. The Everest Region, Khumbu Region. The Himalayas. Sagarmatha National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Solukhumbu, Nepal.
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Picnic high above Lysefjord

…and a dozen metres over Preikestolen, the pulpit rock.

After so many years of visiting Norway frequently I have reached this place at last. And what a weather I had!

#outdoorlife #ScandinavianMountains #LandscapePhotograhy #MountainPhotography #born2trek
Two people sitting on a rock by a mountain lake, above the Preikestolen hiking trail and high above Lysefjord, beneath a blue summer sky and surrounded by the vast, barren landscape of the Scandinavian Mountains. Strand, Rogaland in Vestlandet, the Western Norway
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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My Dear Nepali Friends,

With deep sadness, I was catching the news on Monday and yesterday about the violence during the protests and about the victims. With hope, I read messages today, reporting peoples’ engagement in putting order and peace...

#Nepal #genZ
Nepali flag painted on the street on Sauraha, Chitwan Dist. Nepal
September 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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On the trail in Beskidy with my eight-years-old daughter

#parenting #travelwithchildren #born2trek #born2travel #trekwithchildren #fatheranddaugther
August 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Neuer Henninger-Turm in #Frankfurt, Germany

There is an interesting story behind construction of this modern residential #skyscraper, which replaced an old tower, that was a high grain silo of a similar height and shape.

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The top of a high, modern residential building photographed against the clear, blue sky. The tower has quite an unique construction as its top is cylindrical and it stands on the cuboidal lower, main part.
March 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Humayun's Tomb, my favourite monument in Delhi

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#India #photography #architecture #history #UNESCO #WorldHeritageSite #Delhi #NewDelhi #SouthAsia #architecturephotography
Colour photograph of a 16th century building. It is Humayun's Tomb, the burial place of the Mughal Emperor Humayun, Mirza Nasir al-Din Muhammad. This red sandstone and marble mausoleum is an example of the early Mughal architecture in northern India, an important monument of Delhi and the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photographed on a sunny, blue-sky, winter day, from the Indo-Persian style garden, the charbagh, with the fountain in the foreground. National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, India
March 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Blooming common hepatica photographed early in the #Spring a few year ago in the deciduous forest near Stręgielek village of the Masurian Lake District, #Poland

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#photography #nature #naturephotography #flowers #flowerphotography #wildflowers #ayearforart #botany
Photograph of a small flowering plant clearly blooming early in the spring as there are brown, fallen, previous season leaves below its star-shape, violet colour single flower. Deciduous forest.
March 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Probably the most photographed rock on the southern coast of New Zealand. This boulder looks like a prehistoric egg broke open, a relic of the past.

I’ll be speaking about seascapes on Sunday the 9th for Out of Chicago Live. Still time to register!

#bluesky #landscape #newzealand #seascape
Vivid sunrise light glows red and orange over a cracked boulder on the coast of New Zealand.
February 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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A pair of northern gannets on a sheer grassy slope above a rocky cliff of the Mykineshólmur island with Atlantic Ocean below. #FaroeIslands, North #Atlantic, Kingdom of #Denmark

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#birdwatching #birding #birds #birdsphotography #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Foroyar
A pair of relatively big birds sitting in the deep green grass, on the edge of a cliff. There is dark blue water below them with another bird flying, not really in focus. The sitting birds are generally white, have long bills, and blue eyes contrasting with slightly yellow heads. It seems they were photographed from a short distance.
March 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM