It's grim up north

I encounter another in the series of jobs which rather resemble the fabled torments of hell. An old woman who is working alone outside the village, smashing rocks. She takes the large round rocks from one pile, and beats them with a hammer to produce small angular stones for use in road building. I didn't have the courage to ask her for a photo: just a woman, a hammer and two piles of rock. I'm not sure if this is the worst employment of human life I have seen so far, but Nepal takes the award for best pythonesque rural labour.