In the heart of Nepal live a group of honey hun*ter$, The Gurungs. They are the only ones to live beneath the 8000m peaks. The hills are surrounded by thick jungles and what lie inside them are mystery. In the middle of the year Himalayan bees make honey. The video is a documentary by Raphael Treza. Raphael Treza is a French traveller who makes films on the subjects he love. He has made a lot of documentary and this is one of them. In the documentary the following things are described:
indigenous people of Nepal’s mountain valleys. They live primarily in the Gandaki zone, specifically Lamjung, Kaski, Mustang, Dolpa, Tanahu, Gorkha, Parbat and Syangja districts as well as the Manang district around the Annapurna mountain range. Some live in the Baglung, Okhaldhunga and Taplejung districts and Machhapuchhre as well. Small numbers live in India’s Darjeeling district, Kolkata, Assam, Manipur and Sikkim and as well as Bhutan.
The honey needs to be separated carefully as it can contain in-intoxicating (hallucinogen) substances. Grayanotoxins are a group of closely related toxins found in rhododendrons and other plants of the family Ericaceae. They can be found in honey made from their nectar and cause a very rare poisonous reaction called grayanotoxin poisoning, honey intoxication, or rhododendron poisoning.
Honey making in mountains
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