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 Grade II listed building status. There is also a tongue-in-cheek reference to zebra crossings in the science-fiction comedy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by English author Douglas Adams, in reference to Man using the improbable creature called the Babel fish as proof of the "non"-existence of God; the novel says, "Man then goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing." The La Paz traffic zebras is a team of young people who dress in zebra costumes and dance in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia in order to make drivers