when she was given the opportunity to witness a landmark coming-of-age ritual of the Hamar people: the bull-jumping ceremony. The centerpiece of the ceremony, a challenge where a young man must ...

The Hamar people take part in the amazing 'bull-jumping' rite of passage every year in their Omo Valley homeland in southern Ethiopia STUNNING pictures reveal the tribe where female relatives ...

I am at a bull jumping ceremony which is the culmination of a three-day long rite of passage for any young man within the Hamer tribe. Either side of the long summer rains, communities across ...

The endangered Omo Valley people in Ethiopia were ready for their close-up — one photographer’s effort to capture the tribes before tourism and modernization forever alter their traditional ...

He added that the Hamar are famed for their "bull jumping ceremony" which is "a key passage in a boy’s journey to manhood". First, female relatives dance and invite whipping from men who have ...