I believe the world should see what goes on behind the scenes. Very few people can go to the bottom and still function, minus these miners of course, because that is where the sulfur is pooling. The use damp t-shirts and some have respirators that are Ok, but not likely enough. Interestingly, there were many enterprising blokes renting respirators to tourists for about what these miners make for 1/2 a days efforts. Essentially, if you showed up with 50 respirators, these miners could literally retire from mining and just rent out respirators.
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Why don't they do it? I mean, renting out respirators? Is it expensive for them to invest that kind of money? It may not be for everyone, but at least those with health problems can continue making money this way. I've never traveled to those places, so I have no clue how they think and what pushes them to do what they do.
Those that have managed to get a respirator could either use to mine or simply stand around and rent it out to tourists wanting to go down and have a look. It turns out that it's more profitable to simply rent the respirators than to actually mine. Hence, the prevalence of the miners w/o a mask. (not only is it expensive, masks like these just don't exist in that area - they're bartered for or given by tourists that feel bad for them). I was asked to 'give' my mask to one of these guys - I laughed at him. I'd much prefer to give it to an actual miner who needs it.