Tribes of honey hunters inhabit the jungles of Nepal. The honey they seek is produced by the world’s largest honey bee. Their work is perilous: nests, as large as the men that hunt them, are high on sheer cliff walls and shingled with thousands of irascible bees. Hunters descend rope ladders, armed with tool-tipped poles, and joust against the swarm to sever the honey bearing portion of the hive.