Nepal_s Mad Honey That Causes Hallucinations (They climb to go insane)
In this episode, we journey to the remote Himalayan cliffs of Nepal to uncover the ancient and dangerous tradition of harvesting "mad honey"—a rare substance that can induce euphoria, hallucinations, and even cardiac arrest. For over 2,000 years, the Gurung and Magar tribes have risked their lives, dangling from bamboo rope ladders hundreds of feet in the air, to collect this reddish honey from the world's largest honeybee, Apis laboriosa [citation:2][citation:5]. They don't climb to go insane, but to harvest a substance with a long history of medicinal, ritual, and recreational use…
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