STORY: In this remote village in Nepal, about an eight-hour drive from the capital, Kathmandu… honey hunters prepare to collect from hives perched along a steep cliff. As smoke billows up to clear the ...

DOLAKHA, Nepal -- High up in Nepal's mountains, groups of men risk their lives to harvest much sought-after wild honey from hives on cliffs. Trekking hours through the steep mountains, one group led ...

DANG, Nepal, Jan 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the 15 years Chitra Bhan Khatri has been keeping bees in west Nepal, he never had trouble providing food for his insects - until last year, when ...

TAAP, Nepal (Reuters) - Aita Prasad Gurung dangled off a cliff in Nepal, carefully manipulating a long pole with a blade at its end to cut away chunks of honeycomb after Himalayan bees fled the fumes ...

The Gurung people have been conducting honey hunt rituals in the Himalayan cliffs of Nepal for a very long time. The cultural practice has been transferred from one generation to another making the ...

Nepali climbers hang from a ladder off a Himalayan mountain cliff to gather highly prized hallucinogenic honey - Copyright AFP Chris Kleponis Nepali climbers hang ...

Chuman Gharti Magar cannot remember the number of times he has been stung by bees. But he clearly remembers what his friends and family had said when he spent Rs4,000 on two frame hives from a ...

DOLAKHA, Nepal (AP) — High up in Nepal's mountains, groups of men risk their lives to harvest much sought-after wild honey from hives on cliffs. Trekking hours through the steep mountains, one group ...

DOLAKHA, NepalDOLAKHA, Nepal — High up in Nepal’s mountains, groups of men risk their lives to harvest much sought-after wild honey from hives on cliffs. Trekking hours through the steep mountains, ...