Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, but it’s the only one that requires climbing up a 1,000-foot cliff face to reach. Father Assefa, 64, has done it every ...

In the Gheralta Mountains of the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, inside a vertical rock wall at an altitude of 2,580 meters, lies the most inaccessible church in the world. It is called Abuna ...

ABUNA YEMATA GUH—Ten feet above me on the 600-foot cliff face, the barefoot, buck-toothed monk beckons and grins. He’s another one who looks to be nearing 80, but the sun is so strong and feels so ...

Churches are often perceived as peaceful abodes where devotees seek solace and spiritual calm. But tucked away atop a cliff in Northern Ethiopia lies a church that will not only soothe your soul but ...

On the 40th day after giving birth, women in a small Ethiopian village in the Gheralta range climb 400m up a near vertical rock face in their bare feet to have their babies baptised at chapel carved ...

Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, but it's the only one that requires climbing up a 1,000-foot cliff face to reach. Father Assefa, 64, has done it every ...

Father Assefa, 64, has climbed a 1,000-foot sheer cliff to reach the Abuna Yemata Guh church every day for 50 years. Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, ...