Painting the soffits of a three-storey building while simultaneously practising for the gymnastics in the 2016 Olympics 鈥� is that wise?

Thanks to MB Lewis for photographing this worker and his colleagues in Kathmandu providing the finishing touches to a Nepalese hotel. He comments: 鈥淪tanding barefooted, on a single bamboo pole, no harness, no helmet, no hope if they ever fell.鈥�

And by the way, no, it's not, we understand, one of those Hyatt hotels (see below)鈥�


Worker balanced on scaffold poles

Shot of the hotel front


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