Enam, a noted photographer, says, 'No photographer can capture the majesty of a mountain. In the photos we miss the towering dignity of the mountains. I will be happy if our puny images can carry a hundredth of what we saw.' MA Mohit comments, 'Hills are enigmatic while the mountains are mysterious. I started trekking the hills at home and ended up in misty trails of the Himalayas. I've attempted to frame the mystery of the mountains.' Musa Ibrahim comments, 'If I believed in reincarnation I would wish to be a little hill in an unknown part of the Himalayas with a sonorous stream rushing past me the year round.' Sadia Sultana, the fourth photographer of the exhibit, says 'Trekking showed me the enormity and grandeur of the Himalayas. I hope there's some of it in my photographs.'

Enam explains, 'What we are trying to do is popularise mountaineering in Bangladesh because it doesn't exist in our country. We are encouraging and sponsoring young people to take up mountaineering training and join trekking in order to go to expeditions to the Himalayas. In May, this year, we went to Lukla, to the Everest Base Camp. Four of us took photos of the people and the hills , some signs of hardships on the way and this is what we are presenting in the exhibition. One would imagine that nothing exists there and yet we found human beings. Most of the exhibition is about the Sherpas who live there and people like us who come from afar to climb the hills. We try to present interesting aspects of their lives. There, merely to exist is a feat. There are hundreds of young people who come from around the world to test their mettle against the hardship.'

'We all went to the Everest Base Camp,' says Sadia, ' and here are the pictures of that experience. Most of us have done the basic mountaineering course of a month. We learnt to overcome the ice and the rocks. We photographed the landscapes, the local Sherpas as well as ourselves.' One of her pictures presents two of the team members at rest. At the back are the snow-capped black and white mountains. One of the climbers is lying on the ground while another is seen in a silhouette. Another brings in two of the trekkers seen against a glacier that appears like an ice sculpture. 'There was no element of fear and we all enjoyed ourselves,' comments Sadia. ' The food there might not have been all that marvellous but the people were extremely hospitable ,' she adds.

One of Enam's pictures, Cold breeze, which appears on the brochure too, presents six trekkers seen against the ice-covered mountain. The trekkers can go fairly high up, carrying their luggage. You can see the hardship that they have gone through in the very shape of the bodies. They carry walking sticks to support themselves and are bending forward. Another picture, Rest, presents a helicopter that came to rescue people but crashed and is now a permanent part of the Himalayan scenario. The black body of the helicopter is seen against the white snow, with an inclusion of a striking red parka clad trekker ,who is standing at the side.

Meandering road, by Musa Ibrahim, brings in two hills on two sides, with the road going between them, through which people are coming down. The picture has been taken from another hill and goes to present life in the Himalayas. Mohit's Mother's care depicts a Sherpa woman carrying her five year-old child and steadily going about her work.

The photographs are a good depiction of life in the mysterious Himalayas.