Everest Street View images were captured last year when Google took a 10-day trek through Khumbu . The region is also known as the Everest Region and is on the Buddhist side of the world 's highest mountain . Trek was led by world record-holding mountaineer Apa Sherpa who has scaled the summit 21 times . Images include Thame and upper Thame - small Sherpa villages in the Solukhumbu District of Nepal . Another village captured by the Street View trekkers was Khumjung sitting 13,000ft ( 3,970 metres ) above sea level . Google also captured parts of the Phortse farming village including Thakiri Chholing Gomba , or small monastery . Paintings inside the monastery began in 2008 by Nepalese artists and were completed by the end of 2009 .
Everest Street View images were captured last year when Google took a 10-day trek through Khumbu . The region is also known as the Everest Region and is on the Nepalese side of the world 's highest mountain . Trek was led by world record-holding mountaineer Apa Sherpa who has scaled the summit 21 times . Images include Thame and upper Thame - small Sherpa villages in the Solukhumbu District of Nepal . Another village captured by the Street View trekkers was Khumjung sitting 13,000ft ( 3,970 metres ) above sea level . Google also captured parts of the Phortse farming village including Thakiri Chholing Gomba , or small monastery . Paintings inside the monastery began in 2008 by Buddhist artists and were completed by the end of 2009 .