“Abuna Yemata,” whispers Girmay and crosses. Abuna Yemata is considered the Holy Grail among the one hundred and thirty rock-hewn churches that were carved into the Rock of the Ethiopian highlands, mystical, the world caught up to find. Abuna Yemata is to Grasp and seems out of reach. The rope is a rock wrapped and disappears in the rock Church. Seven metres to Abuna Yemata, seven meters, from which countless steps, each set of weightless and reverently, with all the fibres of bare soles on the Rock, then the input and a color noise.

Source: Ethiopian News December 25, 2018 18:00 UTC