A Brit family with two young children are spending their lockdown in Nepal and hope to clamber up part of Mount Everest. The Smith family from Aberdeen left on a round-the-world trip of a lifetime before the UK coronavirus lockdown.
Despite many countries closing their borders as the deadly pandemic trundles on, the Smiths are still hoping to complete a trek to Everest base camp, in the Nepalese mountains.
Julie and Kris Smith left the UK 10 months ago, well before the pandemic hit, with their children Jacob, aged four, and Erihn, aged nine.
The adventurous parents had planned a trip to Everest base camp until lockdown was introduced in Nepal on March 26, when they were in the mountain area of Pakhepani in the Solukhumbu region.