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Back then we had to rent the donkeys he used to reach trick but a few years ago he received three years a gift from a local t. V. Station. Each of my friends here as a native so i got to get them. We didnt sawn. But as our doesnt wear socks he stuffs his boots with grassy fronds along the way. I mean i always hope nothing happens to us and so we can hike in peace. We pray to the mountain to our father. That we will arrive safely at the ice mines. To the people here jim but also is more than just a six thousand three hundred metre high full kaino. Many revere and as a spiritual force. Its a difficult journey. The higher he goes the thinner the air and as Climate Change melts away the glacier desires to climb higher to find the precious eyes. Eventually as the donkey tire but as our has to make the final stretch on fort. He still uses the same technique that previous size merchants. Did two hundred years ago. And it is you think i would climb up here in large groups and sell the rice across the country. Now. Is the only arrow the. Refrigerators might have made his job largely redundant but. They could never match genuine glacial ice. That use this office for things like cooling fish all making fruit juices and popsicles its special one of a kind. Yes. On each trip up the mountain bikers are extracts six months of pure pleasure. Each flock weighs around forty kilograms. He uses grass to pack them up and keep them in selected. The return journey down the mountain this time around ford takes another four hours. But hes not done yet. After arriving at the village but as are continues on to the provincial capital of rio bomba where hell sell the ice at the market. But as our earns five dollars for each blocky sells. He uses part of his earnings to pay for the car he has to rent to get to the market. Gym but also province is well known for its rich cultural traditions and his own too many indigenous keach what people. But unemployment is high and poverty line spread. Came. A growing number of farmers are leaving their rural homes for the cities in order to support their families. Customers greatly appreciate juices made with glacial ice. Its said to even have healing properties. To top up his meager income but his are also works at a museum once a week in the city of quando. Hes become something of a celebrity across ecuador former president Rafael Correa once honored him and called his profession part of the National Cultural heritage you. Know my name is. Tennis aka. Im the euro from chin what also. This guys big and hans im. The ill never die when i die you still have him you. His daughter carmen help son at the museum. I hope you wont be the last your little i hope someday his sons and grandsons will follow in his footsteps but it doesnt pay well so young people dont like doing the work but i desperately want this tradition to stay alive its it be that it you that me but. When barges are isnt scaling jim but im sure theres still plenty to do at home too. He lives with his children and grandchildren hurting animals and farming potatoes his wife passed away five years ago. They demanded two of my brothers died from drinking too much. Money for my father too he died from too much alcohol. And my dad was an ok you know. He grew up as he got out o. That now but on a has passed on to us than them. Bunches are never rests awhile back he had his first accident on the mountain and a block of ice throw his support. After that he had to sit still or home for months. When it hit the part. When i was at home i felt really sad and tired. But now its much better and im dancing again. On new york. Since boxers are the accident his son in law for one has been accompanying him regularly. Well is this crash ok for packing let me show not try to do it this is how let me show you. Which donkey will use the one over the. Ok. I got seven packs are stronger than the journey in such a do you. Feel. That you have to pull the rope tighter. Otherwise you will fall off. Yesterday you broke which will. I want to fix it but i made it worse. When theyre out on their own the to speak the indigenous andean language. You need the metal bar. No need to work with the pick ups first. Punches on is losing his hearing so one often needs to shot one is married to by design as daughter carmen. He wants to learn the centuries old tradition directly from the master and self one is also a former other work often from the area are few and far between. For. Me ive been due to low. Level a lot from him. About the ice cut the ice and the cubes. Packed them up. And then you load it onto the donkey transporters down to the obama the but im. Sure. I forgot that blind us. The boat is a dangerous that could fall. No but i promise ill be careful. And what if they really do fall. The. Field be a good thing and i know it doesnt pay well but we cant give up hope the have to preserve our ancestors traditions. For the generations to come in the years that treasure on them just becomes. Burnt as our oscar for his part will keep bringing our eyes from the glacier down to the valley as long as his feet will carry him. On. Climate change. Sustainability. Environmental projects we give globalisation the face biodiversity Species Conservation exploitation inequality. Human rights displacement to. Be sure of the global and current of local actually global three thousand next on d w. This week we write not the dark themes of winter. Bustling cities. Illuminating aunts. And unspoilt nature. Wintry lights our series this week. 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