ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 6月3日 00時58分
Photo by @renan_ozturk @camp4collective for #TheLastHoneyHunter story. ~
Words by @m_synnott ~
Before the expedition I’d heard that the honey hunters use bamboo ropes. I figured it must be a rumor. I didn’t doubt that ‘back in the day’ they probably used bamboo, but I knew that many of the Kulunge work in the trekking industry and as porters for climbing expeditions, so surely they must have had opportunity to get their hands on modern nylon ropes. But as a lifelong climber I was certainly curious: what would a bamboo rope even look like – and how strong would it be? ~
When we finally arrived in the village of Sadhi, deep in the Hongu Valley, it didn’t take long for the mystery to be solved. Within minutes of entering the village we arrived at the home of Jenge, the Kulunge trader who has managed the local honey hunts for the past 18 years. And there, sitting on his front porch, was a wagon-wheel-sized coil of smoke blackened bamboo rope. ~
Jenge quickly made clear that the rope Renan and I were fondling was their old one. It had been in service for about five years and had just been retired. He and the other honey hunters had spent the past two weeks hand weaving a new one with hundreds of long thin strips of bamboo that we saw stacked in the eave above our heads. He led us into his home where a greener version of the rope outside was suspended above his hearth. “The smoke,” he said, “helps cure the bamboo, which prevents bugs from eating it.” The rope, I now noticed, was actually a ladder, with two separate strands held together with foot rungs spaced about three feet apart. Jenge estimated it was 80-meters long – the height of the tallest honey cliff. ~ “Can you imagine?” I whispered to Renan, who just raised his eyebrows and slowly shook his head. #Nepaliloveyou #bamboo #jungle ~
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