This study uses a photo-elicitation method to assess local perceptions and interpreta- tions of the changes that have occurred in the Khumbu region of Nepal since the 1960s. In this approach, photographs are used as stimuli or as a means of communication between the researchers and the participants. Photo-elicitation interviews were conducted with Sherpas. the dominant ethnic group of the Khumbu region, as well as a few other inhabitants who were not bom in the region. but were still very familiar with it. The inter- views were guided by a set of 35 photographs that depicted key elements of change in the landscape of the Khumbu since the 1960s. Because of the international popularity of the Khumbu. we were able to compile photographs from collections that date back to the mid-1960s, when trekking in Nepal first became popular there