My family has been through a lot of phases on Expedition Everest. We've gone from too short to ride to too scared to ride to begging to ride multiple times every time we're in the park. Our typical routine is to enter at the front gate, head to Safari, and then make our way to Everest via the back path from Harambe.
As such I spend a lot of time in this queue, which is great because there's plenty to see here. As the story goes, several buildings used by the Royal Anandapur Tea Company have been repurposed by businesses that send trekkers on expeditions through the Himalayas. "Expedition Everest" is the name of one of those treks—arranged by the Himalayan Escapes tour company, the owners of which have refurbished a steam train that once brought harvested tea leaves down from the mountains to give trekkers a shortcut through the "forbidden mountain" guarded by the Yeti.
The queue for Everest tells the legend of the Yeti—there is a shrine to it and a makeshift museum documenting sightings and a previously lost expedition group.
This photo was taken earlier in the queue area, though, when you first enter one of its enclosed buildings and stumble upon some A/C and these offices of the enterprising Himalayan Escapes tour company
It's a moment frozen in time and covered in jewel-toned colors. Everything looks almost abandoned, covered in dust, and yet the details shine through. With the naked eye, its a darker space and hard to make out those details—but with my camera I can again start to uncover them.
To this end, I set my camera to gather as much light as possible for this image—50mm, f/1.2, 1/60 seconds, and ISO 800.