Modest trade - the seller of the glacier

Say at once, this is the last representative of an ancient profession, still popular in the remote El Dorado - the seller of mountain ice.

It is now possible to obtain ice by freezing water in a freezer, in just one hour. And some even 70-50 years ago, this guy was full of competitors. Yes, and they have earned it hard to order more than he now earns.





Once a week, in his 68 years, he went to the top of a sacred mountain to chop primitive chunks of ice pick and then immerse it is good for the donkey, such as the elderly, as well as the master himself. Wrapping cargo in the straw, it was sent to him back to the village where he sells him. This craft was once held by his father and grandfather, his grandfather likewise climbed this mountain. He does not remember who the first of his great-grandfather started to produce ice for sale. For a long time it all happened.

Now he became a grandfather, but the kids did not want to deal with a family craft and it looks like it was the last, who else can bring healing ice from the mountain top.



Yes, and sell ice it becomes more and more difficult, only the older generation still knows a lot about the healing properties of the ice, and it is the youth a hundred years is no longer necessary.
That's earnings had from this small, about 25 bucks for a pass. Yes, plus a tourist takes as a conductor for 60 bucks for a tour to the glacier.



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