{"id":91,"date":"2008-02-20T00:56:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/2008\/02\/20\/the-way-up-debre-damo-tigray-ethiopia-october-2007\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T00:56:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:56:57","slug":"the-way-up-debre-damo-tigray-ethiopia-october-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/the-way-up-debre-damo-tigray-ethiopia-october-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way Up, Debre Damo, Tigray, Ethiopia, October 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/gallery\/2007_eth_debredamo_rope01.jpg\" title=\"The Way Up, Debre Damo, Tigray, Ethiopia, October 2007\" alt=\"The Way Up, Debre Damo, Tigray, Ethiopia, October 2007\" height=\"640\" width=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Debre Damo is a monastery village located on top of a mesa. There is only one way to the top of this mesa, a single rope to a path that leads to the top (other ropes you see are either for safety or for hauling up supplies). Only men are allowed to the top, a rule which extends to only allowing male food animals to be brough up for eating (we saw a couple goats being hauled up as offerings). Another complication of living on top of a mesa is that all the water must come from the river in the valley below, a significant hike with an elevation change of sseveral hundred feet in itself, I think.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is quite busy at this resolution, so here is a crop to showw the guys at the top, some of whome are hauling people and supplies up, but most of whom are simply getting in the way and making a nuisance of themselves (the area at the top of the rope is very narrow, and there is a lot of traffic).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/gallery\/2007_eth_debredamo_rope01t.jpg\" title=\"Detail of above photo.\" alt=\"Detail of above photo.\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debre Damo is a monastery village located on top of a mesa. There is only one way to the top of this mesa, a single rope to a path that leads to the top (other ropes you see are either for safety or for hauling up supplies). Only men are allowed to the top, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/the-way-up-debre-damo-tigray-ethiopia-october-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Way Up, Debre Damo, Tigray, Ethiopia, October 2007&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}