Oil Painting on linen.

Size: 98H x 160 W x 3.5 cm

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Makalu (8,485 meters) is the fifth Highest mountain in the world. In 2014 I was stood on this mountain ridge in the Himalayas looking out from Mount Baruntse 7,129 m towards it. At this hight your very body begins to die and can't sustain its self for very long due to the lack of air. I was just below the summit, but didn't make the final few hundred meters. The mountains scared realm was left unviolated. On this occasion I felt this was right for reasons of safety, but also the divinity of the mountain did not permit it and im glad she was respected. I hope to return one day to look across the soaring ice peaks in the paintings vista of the Tibetan high peaks where Bodhisattvas and Sages dwell. The painting is devoted to all the the Sherpa people who helped me achieve one of my life's ambitions to climb a high himalayan mountain. Mountains to the Nepalese people are seen as deities, there for this is a painting of the infinite transcendental as I witnessed it on that day.