Most Dangerous Ways To School | HIMALAYA (India) | Free Documentary

Most Dangerous Ways To School | HIMALAYA (India) | Free Documentary

Twice a year, the forbidding journey to the boarding school is necessary.

Father Latak looks to the sky and attempts to predict how the weather will develop.

Only when he is sure that no storm is brewing does he start to prepare the children for the trip over the river.

It is a route that is so notorious that it even has a name: Chadar, the path over the cloak of ice.

One last time, his ten-year-old son Motup plays in front of their hut.

Motup is one of the few kids who regularly leaves the village in order to attend one of the better schools in town.

Then the family gets ready for the long trip.

The mother has sewn thick wool socks for the father and the children, and Tebean prayers and mantras are recited for protection along the way.

Then the trip begins, where the children must completely trust the experience and skill of their father.