Honey Hunting and Bees in Your Bonnet!

Hunting for wild honey is a tradition in rural Nepal and extremely dangerous. Villagers descend sheer cliff faces on rope ladders to harvest the honeycomb. This year the action was filmed by BBC India journalists Aamir Peerzada and Neha Sharma.

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