Honey hunters risks their lives working on foothills in Vietnam
These daredevils climb to great heights every day in order to collect high-priced honey in Vietnam.
They use smoke, ladders and occasionally ropes to balance when harvesting the honey from the hives on cliffs and trees.
Nail-biting footage shows a man standing with no security harness on a wooden ladder off a cliff, and using a bamboo stick to grab a honeycomb.
Further footage shows another man climbing a tree with ease in order to collect a honeycomb at the top.
‘’They [the honey hunters] do not need to use protective equipment because they are used to being bitten by bees,’’ said the filmer.
The honey of the bees in Yen Bai Province has a high price in the Vietnamese market. The litre is sold between £30 and £35 (1 million Vietnamese dongs).
They use smoke, ladders and occasionally ropes to balance when harvesting the honey from the hives on cliffs and trees.
Nail-biting footage shows a man standing with no security harness on a wooden ladder off a cliff, and using a bamboo stick to grab a honeycomb.
Further footage shows another man climbing a tree with ease in order to collect a honeycomb at the top.
‘’They [the honey hunters] do not need to use protective equipment because they are used to being bitten by bees,’’ said the filmer.
The honey of the bees in Yen Bai Province has a high price in the Vietnamese market. The litre is sold between £30 and £35 (1 million Vietnamese dongs).
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