In Indonesia on the island of Java, every day, dozens of miners climb the Kawah Ijen volcano to access the sulphur mines and pocket a few rupees.
Days and nights they come to the bottom of the crater to drop twice a day loads of 75 to 80kg of sulphur, carried on the shoulder in woven bamboo baskets.
Usually evolving without any protections : the more fortunate have a respirator in bad condition, glasses and boots, the others a simple cloth on the nose and flip flops.
To be here when maybe we shouldn’t have my mind filled with strange sensations. A place increasingly known and publicized, I carefully avoided the flow of organized group circuits in order to witness to the best of their working conditions.