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:




Twice a year high in the Himalayan foothills of central Nepal teams of men gather around cliffs that are home to the world’s largest honeybee, Apis laboriosa. As they have for generations, the men come to harvest the Himalayan cliff bee’s honey. They make honey by collecting nectar from different poisonous flowers. The film Raphael Treza into these villages and he narrates his experience. These honey bees are over twice the size of the normal farm bees: their larger bodies have adapted to the colder climate for insulation. The collectors rope ladders of more than 200 feet, and balancing a basket and a long pole to chisel away at a giant honey comb of up to 2 million bees and catch it in the basket.The film also shows the beauty of the Nepalese Village: the life of villagers and the beautiful landscape.




The Gurung people, also called Tamu, are an ethnic group from different parts of Nepal: 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.




A hallucinogen is a psychoactive agent which can cause hallucinations, perception anomalies, and other substantial subjective changes in thoughts, emotion, and consciousness. The common types of hallucinogens are psychedelics, dissociative, or deliriants. By contrast, Stimulants, Opioids, and other psychoactive drugs are not explicitly hallucinogens because a ‘hallucination’ is visual terminology. The psycho activity of opioid is devoid of visual anomalies, though the ‘numbing’ can be considered dissociation from pain. Hallucinations are not an uncommon symptom of amphetamine psychosis, but as they are not a primary effect of the drugs themselves. While stimulants do not induce hallucinations without abuse, the nature of stimulant psychosis is not unlike delirium.