Houses are seen in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen May 20, 2016. In villages perched high on a mountain in Western Yemen, residents are a safe distance from a conflict raging throughout most of the country but have had to turn the clock back on their lifestyles by centuries. Eighteen months of civil war and shortages have deprived Yemen's 28 million people of electricity and fuel – dinner is cooked on an open fire and dawn light heralds a the start of work in the fields. But far from a country idyll, starvation and a lack of vital medicine have turned sunny days in the crisp green hills into a medieval struggle for survival. People in the Jafariya district of the western Raymah province must now haul basic goods uphill by foot, donkey and even a pulley-powered cable car soaring between peaks. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A cable car carries supplies to Dhalamlam Mountain, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen May 20, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A boy stands on the roof of a pond in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen June 2, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A boy sits on the roof of a house on Dhalamlam Mountain, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen June 2, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A cable car operator uses a vehicle engine to run the cable car that carries people and supplies to Dhalamlam Mountain in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen May 20, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A man rides a cable car that carries people and supplies to Dhalamlam Mountain, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen May 31, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A man carries food supplies on a donkey to Dhalamlam Mountain in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen June 2, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A boy carries a gas canister on a road to Dhalamlam Mountain in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen May 20, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





Boys swim in a pond in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen June 2, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A girl plays on a swing near her house in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen June 3, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





Men work in a farm on Dhalamlam Mountain, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen May 21, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





Boys sit on an edge of the roof of their house in the mountains, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen May 31, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A woman walks along a path on Dhalamlam Mountain, in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen June 2, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)





A girl sits on the roof of her house on Dhalamlam Mountain in the Jafariya district of the western province of Raymah, Yemen June 1, 2016. (Photo by Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)