90-year-old Kasim Karaosman carefully hoists himself onto a rickety cable car – which he made himself more than 50 years ago – before the contraption shoots him 300 metres across a deep mountain valley to his home.
The makeshift machines are essential in these villages in northeast Turkey, where locals harvest tea leaves in fields inaccessible by car.
But a string of deaths and hair-raising accidents has sent a shudder of fear through the community.