This involves crossing a 4, 700-metre-high pass on a donkey, and is impossible in winter.

ECONOMIST: Postcard from Faizabad

"The children and the wounded had to be taken to the ambulances on a donkey cart, " the ICRC said.

CNN: Israel kills 30 civilians at shelter, witnesses tell U.N.

Among the standouts: a dark, brooding Corinth self-portrait drawing and a charming, light-struck August Macke of an Arab on a donkey.

WSJ: Before Darkness Fell | German Expressionism 1900-1930 | Neue Galerie | By Karen Wilkin

His father, he recalls, took him to school on the back of a donkey.

ECONOMIST: The new president looks like a typical Brother

He has made a number of mistakes this season, hence riding with a donkey painted on his helmet, so he was content to finish second and that was the sensible thing to do.

BBC: Steve Parrish's MotoGP column

But when Mr Batista rode a borrowed donkey through town on Tuesday, no-one tried to stop him.

BBC: Brazil mayor in donkey legal spat

And tonight this seems to be even more true - hand carts, donkey carts, a boy on a bicycle carrying two large wooden crates, two boys on a moped carrying an extension ladder and metal piping.

NPR: Gridlock Gripped Karachi After Bhutto's Slaying

Last December, Christoforos and a companion, a white-nosed donkey named Fotis, made a five-day journey to the south of England on a special equine transport truck.

WSJ: Hee Haw! Donkeys Get Last Laugh As One Greek Tragedy Ends Happily