One month a year, giant Himalayan bees, the biggest bees in the world, come to collect nectar from a poisonous flower, giving the honey they make certain medicinal, aphrodisiac, and hallucinogenic properties.” In this short documentary, filmmaker Raphael Treza meets with a Nepalese tribe to learn about this honey, and how they use it. During the making of the film, the translator eats too much of the honey and falls unconscious. The honey harvesting is dangerous because the bees make their colonies on the face of a cliff. The harvesters use handmade rope ladders to climb up and get to the honey.the delicate ecosystem that underpins this tradition is threatened by a changing climate, a rising market for the bees’ spring honey, and a new invasive species: tourists. Photographer Andrew Newey took pains to avoid contributing to these problems when he documented the Gurung ritual in 2013. Newey spent weeks trying to find responsible honey hunters that wouldn’t exploit the bees and their habitat for his money, and will not reveal the location of the cliffs they harvest. “I’d done plenty of research beforehand and I knew that tourism was having a detrimental impact on the region,” he says. “It was massively under threat and I thought I’d go over there and document it before it just disappears like too many other traditions around the world.”