Journeys on the gondolas -- made from planks nailed to a metal frame hanging from a steel cable -- are risky. Photo: Yasin AKGUL / AFP
Many of his neighbours in tea growing villages above the coastal city of Rize in northeast Turkey make similarly perilous trips to and from their precipitous fields every day in thousands of primitive gondolas. "I only use them when I have no choice," said Ercan Calik, perched on a ridge, with tea plantations stretching as far as the eye can see., there would be no life here," the 50-year-old farmer said, fingering his prayer beads as he surveyed a slope that yields hundreds of tonnes of tea every year.
The accident in April has panicked many locals in Daginiksu, where nearly every household makes their living from tea, selling their crop on to behemoths like the Turkish state-owned company Caykur.
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