The Most Dangerous Ways to School
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The Most Dangerous Ways to School

They climb up mountainous paths, swim across rivers or fight their way through icy wastelands with -50 degrees Celsius. Their path takes them through amazing natural landscapes, producing spectacular scenery for a very ordinary task. The participants, at times without shoes and for days at end, are mere students on their way to school.

1. Ethiopia

Ethiopia
0.0May 4, 2015

When the schoolchildren wake up to the first rays of sunshine, the temperature is already over 30 degrees. They live in the Danakil desert in northeast Ethiopia, near an active volcano, in a region which is the world's hottest on average. Amongst these children are 6-year-old Looita and his sister Khadiga.