Sulfur miners struggle to breathe in toxic gases - Fotografia de stock

Sulfur miners struggle through the toxic gases. Kawah Ijen is the site of a labor intensive sulfur mining operation where, amid clouds of poisonous sulfur dioxide gas, miners extract and then carry heavy loads of pure sulphur in baskets on their shoulders up a steep rocky path from the crater floor to a processing plant at the base of the volcano. Location: Kawah Ijen volcano (Ijen crater), East Java, Indonesia