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Nov 2018
8m 48s

Honey Hunting and Bees in Your Bonnet!

Bbc World Service
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Hunting for wild honey is an old tradition in rural Nepal, and extremely dangerous too, as the bees make their combs on sheer cliff-faces. Villagers descend rope ladders suspended over the void to harvest the honeycomb. And this year the action was filmed by BBC India journalists Aamir Peerzada and Neha Sharma.

Image: Aamir Peerzada and Neha Sharma with wild honey hunters in Nepal Credit: BBC

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