Everest (cigarette) Mount Everest for the album cover. The group, however, did not want to undertake the long trip and travel to Mount Everest for the photo shoot. Paul McCartney drew a sketch with four little stick men crossing the zebra crossing on Abbey Road. The group liked the idea and McCartney suggested they just go outside, take the photo there and name the album after the street. On 8 August 1969, photographer Iain Macmillan took the iconic album cover photograph of the group walking on the zebra crossing outside the studio. In 2009, contraband cigarettes worth 3.1 million US Dollars were
Zebra crossing painted – in which case black is typical – or left unpainted if the road surface itself is dark. The stripes are typically wide. In the United Kingdom the crossing is marked with Belisha beacons, flashing amber globes on black and white posts on each side of the road, named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport, who introduced them in 1934. Pedestrians have a right of way when they step onto the crossing: "The Highway Code" states that road traffic "MUST give way when a pedestrian has moved onto a crossing." In other countries, zebra crossings are also used