04et196 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Scaling the 18 metre cliff to reach the monastery which is at the top. Only men are allowed up. Several people die every year making the dangerous ascent, Ethiopia.

04et197 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Scaling the 18 metre cliff to reach the monastery which is at the top. Only men are allowed up. Several people die every year making the dangerous ascent, Ethiopia.

04et207 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Scaling the 18 metre cliff to reach the monastery which is at the top. Only men are allowed up. Several people die every year making the dangerous ascent, Ethiopia.

04et199 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Scaling the 18 metre cliff to reach the monastery which is at the top. Only men are allowed up. Several people die every year making the dangerous ascent, Ethiopia.

04et198 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Pilgrims gathered underneath cliff, Ethiopia.

04et201 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Aksumite style church at Debre Damo, with pilgrims and monks sitting on grass, Ethiopia.

04et204 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. A monk, Abba Gebre Egziaber (30) who has lived at Debre Damo for 21 years, Ethiopia.

04et202 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Pilgrims and monks sitting on grass, Ethiopia.

04et200 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Boy pilgrim, Ethiopia.

04et205 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Doorway to Aksumite church yard, Ethiopia.

04et203 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Chapel marking the spot where Za Mikail is said to have arrived on the mesa, Ethiopia.

04et206 - Debre Damo monastery. Tigray. Workers hauling up visitors by leather thongs which are strapped around their waists, Ethiopia.

05et143 - Procession of monks at the Abuna Garima monastery, Tigray, during the visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Paulos, who used to be a monk at the monastery, Ethiopia.

05et019 - Woman making coffee. Interior of a traditional Gurage house, near Eyesus monastery, Ethiopia.

05et263 - Woman making coffee. Interior of a traditional Gurage house, near Eyesus monastery, Ethiopia.

05et264 - Woman making coffee. Interior of a traditional Gurage house, near Eyesus monastery, Ethiopia.

05et266 - Woman making coffee. Interior of a traditional Gurage house, near Eyesus monastery, Ethiopia.

04et024 - Tullo Gudo island and it’s monastery of Debre Zion, Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.

04et026 - Tullo Gudo island and it’s monastery of Debre Zion, Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.

05et257 - Woman making coffee. Interior of a traditional Gurage house, near Eyesus monastery, Ethiopia.

05et265 - Woman making coffee. Interior of a traditional Gurage house, near Eyesus monastery, Ethiopia.

04et001 - Archbishop Gregorius visiting Tullo Gudo island and monastery of Debre Zion, Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.

05et147 - Procession of monks at the Abuna Garima monastery, Tigray, during the visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Paulos, who used to be a monk at the monastery, Ethiopia.

05et268 - Procession of monks at the Abuna Garima monastery, Tigray, during the visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Paulos, who used to be a monk at the monastery, Ethiopia.

05et163 - Abuna Garima monastery and landscape, Tigray, Ethiopia.

05et152 - Procession of monks at the Abuna Garima monastery, Tigray, during the visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Paulos, who used to be a monk at the monastery, Ethiopia.

05et153 - Procession of monks at the Abuna Garima monastery, Tigray, during the visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Paulos, who used to be a monk at the monastery, Ethiopia.

05et145 - Procession of monks at the Abuna Garima monastery, Tigray, during the visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Paulos, who used to be a monk at the monastery, Ethiopia.

05et149 - Procession of monks at the Abuna Garima monastery, Tigray, during the visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Paulos, who used to be a monk at the monastery, Ethiopia.

05et150 - Procession of monks at the Abuna Garima monastery, Tigray, during the visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Paulos, who used to be a monk at the monastery, Ethiopia.