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Yemen's peaceful mountaintop oasis

A civil war rages below, but life for Dhalamlam Mountain's rural villagers carries on

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by Jackie Friedman
October 10, 2016

A father and his son walk past the damage left from an airstrike in western Yemen in August 2015.

(REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)But in the remote villages at the top of Dhalamlam Mountain, in western Yemen, life has largely carried on as usual. Unlike most people in Yemen before the war, these

Boys swim in a pond in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen, on June 2, 2016.

(REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad)

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A donkey hauls food up Dhalamlam Mountain on June 2, 2016.

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People shop at a market in the mountains on June 3, 2016.

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A beekeeper checks his beehives on May 21, 2016.

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A woman uses a stone grinder to make flour in her house on May 21, 2016.

(REUTERS/Abduljabbar Zeyad)

A cable car carries supplies to Dhalamlam Mountain on May 20, 2016.

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