The Gurung Honey Hunters of Nepal

• NeverSayGoodBye

  11 Mar 14, 14:02

  High In the Himalayan foothills of central Nepal, Gurung honey hunters gather twice a year risking their lives to harvest the honey from the world's largest honeybee. These hunters dangle on rope ladders, risking their lives using long sticks known as tangos to knock the honeycomb off the cliff-side into baskets and then slowly lower them to the ground below.

  
  

  For hundreds of years, the skills required to practise this ancient and sacred tradition have been passed down through the generations, but now both the number of bees and traditional honey hunters are in rapid decline as a result of increased commercial interests and climate change.

   

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

  

   

• charlize

  11 Mar 14, 19:25

  Impressive.

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  12 Mar 14, 10:28

  Rooks welli delicious~~~