Includes an excellent map of Kathmandu (the capital & largest city in Nepal) and the neighboring communities of Patan & Bhaktapur, as well as maps of Lhasa (the capital of Tibet), Thimphu (the capital of Bhutan), Paro (a district in Bhutan) (from Dharma Adventures, circa 2000); a trekking map for Annapurna (named for a Hindu goddess, at 26,500 feet above sea level, the 10th highest mountain in the world, located in the geographic center of Nepal) (from Lake Side, 1998); an excellent topographical map & guide to Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, and the surrounding high Himalayas (from National Geographic, 1988); and another excellent NatGeo map of Everest (from 2003, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hilary’s ascent), featuring an amazing poster-sized (31 x 20) photograph of the Mountain, indicating its various faces, glaciers and base camps, on one side, along with maps of Nepal’s Sagarmatha National Park, which leads up to Mount Everest (which marks the boundary between Nepal and Tibet.