bodies away. this is a valley frequently used by syrians trying to sneak into lebanon, and their deaths here underscore just how desperate they are to reach safe ground. it's safer in lebanon, but life for the nearly 1 million syrians who have fled here is hard, ever harder in winter in these makeshift camps. but hans' wife is ill. sickness is but one of the perils in their leaky cold shelter. vermin another, he tells me. there is everything here, he says. things i've never seen before. rats, mice, everything. mona crossed into lebanon with her son. her husband went missing five years ago. we were afraid, she recalls. we walked for four days over the mountains after paying $700 to smugglers.