Chandi Kumari Gurung, 39, cooks rice for dinner as her husband Aita Prasad Gurung, 40, looks after their son Pramod Gurung, 1, a day ahead of the honey hunting at their house in Taap in Lamjung, Nepal, May 28, 2024. Aita dangled off a cliff, carefully manipulating a long pole with a blade at its end to cut away chunks of honeycomb after Himalayan bees fled the fumes from a fire set to drive them from their homes. He wore a white hat with a net swathing his face to protect against stings as he hung 160 feet (50m) off the precipice on a handmade ladder, braided from bamboo strands, to reach the bee colonies. "It is fraught with danger of falling," said Aita, whose community has traditionally harvested honey from hives perched hundreds of feet off the ground. "One must extract honey and stay safe at the same time." REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
