The landscape of the Danakil Depression is pictured on 28 March 2017. Every morning, hundreds of men converge on a dry lakebed in a remote corner of Ethiopia, where they cleave the ground open with handaxes to extract salt, just as their fathers and grandfathers once did. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)





A man mines blocks of salt from the Danakil Depression on 28 March 2017, in Afar, Ethiopia. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)





Men mine salt from the Danakil Depression on 28 March 2017, in Afar, Ethiopia. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)





A man shaves blocks of salt from the Danakil Depression on 28 March 2017, in Afar, Ethiopia. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)





A man shaves blocks of salt from the Danakil Depression on 28 March 2017, in Afar, Ethiopia. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)





People unload and store salt brought into Berhale town in the Afar region on camel caravan from the Danakil Depression in the northern reaches of the Afar region near the Eritrean boarder in Ethiopia on 27 March 2017. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)





People unload and store salt brought into Berhale town in the Afar region on camel caravan from the Danakil Depression in the northern reaches of the Afar region near the Eritrean boarder in Ethiopia on 27 March 2017. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)





Young boys play football in the foreground while a camel caravan approaches the salt market in northern Afar region of Ethiopia on 27 March 2017. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)





A camel caravan enters the salt mining area of the Danakil Depression on 28 March 2017, in Afar. (Photo by Zacharias Abubeker/AFP Photo)