Children in Sri Lanka climb trees to access online school

Children sit on tree branches as they access their online lessons from a forest reserve (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Getting online school lessons for residents of one remote Sri Lankan village requires a trek through dense bushes sometimes visited by leopards and elephants.

The teachers and some 45 schoolchildren in Bohitiwaya then climb more than two miles to the top of a rock to find an internet signal.