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In this picture taken late Saturday April 19, 2014, a Syrian man carries his newborn baby in his arms, left, as he and his wife, right, descend a mountain path from the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. Violence forced them to flee their home in the Syrian village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The group of Syrians that reached Chebaa at sunrise on Sunday joined more than 1 million other Syrian refugees inside Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken on late Saturday, April 19, 2014, two Syrian men help Syrian families flee from the village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. They walk along with their horse on a mountain path after descending from the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. Many people in Bin Jinn have been displaced several times before by the fighting in other parts of Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, Farizeh Kabalan, 74, who fled her home from the Syrian village of Beit Jinn near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is helped by Lebanese Red Cross volunteers after she descended from the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh). She sits on the ground waiting to go into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. Many of the people in Bin Jinn had been displaced several times by the fighting in Syria before fleeing into Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, a Syrian volunteer, left, stands next to Saleh Zawaraa, 28, as he lies face down on a horse waiting for a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance after fleeing the Syrian village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Zawaraa made the journey on horseback over the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. Saleh said he was hit by a tank shell outside of Beit Jinn while trying to bring bread into the village. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, a Syrian volunteer, right, and a Lebanese Red Cross volunteer, left, move Saleh Zawaraa, 28, from a horse onto a stretcher after a 12-hour journey from the Syrian village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, over the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa, in southeast Lebanon. Saleh said he was hit by a tank shell outside of Beit Jinn while trying to bring bread into the village.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, Samira Asrawi 45, right, and her daughter Marwa, 19, left, sit on the ground weeping next to their belongings as they wait to be vetted by Lebanese soldiers at an army check point after descending from 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh) and reached the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. They were part of a group of around a dozen Syrians desperate to flee their countryís bloody civil war who fled their home in the village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. They took part in a treacherous nighttime trek across the rugged frontier into neighboring Lebanon.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( APTOPIX Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, Farizeh Kabalan, 74, who fled her home in the Syrian village of Beit Jinn near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is lifted from a horse by Lebanese Red Cross volunteers after descending from the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. The village of Beit Jinn, where most of the fleeing Syrians came from, has been under siege by Syrian troops for months, and no food and medicine has been allowed to reach thousands of trapped civilians inside. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, Saleh Zawaraa, 28, lies on a stretcher as a Lebanese Red Cross volunteer covers him with a blanket after his 12-hour journey from the Syrian village of Beit Jinn, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and over the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh),into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. Saleh said he was hit by a tank shell outside of Beit Jinn while trying to bring bread into the village. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken on early Sunday, April 20, 2014, a Lebanese army soldier searches the belongings of a Syrian man who fled from the village of Beit Jinn near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, after he descended from the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa in southeast Lebanon. The soldiers are particularly suspicious of young men, like 28-year-old Saleh Zawaraa, who was wrapped in bandages. He told the soldiers he was not a fighter, but was hit by a tank shell outside of Beit Jinn while trying to bring bread into the village. The soldiers let him through.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken on early Sunday April 20, 2014, Farizeh Kabalan, 74, who fled her home in the Syrian village of Beit Jinn near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is carried on horseback by a Syrian rider after descending from the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), into the town of Chebaa town in southeast Lebanon. Once at a Lebanese Army checkpoint, Kabalan collapsed into the hands of four Red Cross workers, who loaded her into an ambulance. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, Ibrahim Abdulghani, 32, leads his horse with the belongings of Syrian refugees as he descends from the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), in southeast Lebanon. Abdulghani, from Syria, works as a construction worker during the day in Lebanon and volunteers at night to help Syrians escape. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )

In this picture taken early Sunday, April 20, 2014, Ibrahim Abdulghani, 32, leads his horse loaded with the belongings of Syrian refugees as he descends from the 2,814-meter (9,232-foot) high Mount Hermon (Jabal el-Sheikh), in southeast Lebanon. Abdulghani, from Syria, works as a construction worker during the day in Lebanon and volunteers at night to help Syrians escape. Only the most desperate risk the perilous journey, Abdulghani said. The list of dangers, he said, runs long: crossfire from clashes; snipers; airstrikes; snow in winter and pouring rain in spring. For fear of being spotted by snipers while climbing up the mountain on the Syrian side, smoking is prohibited. “They can light up a cigarette when they descend into Lebanon,” he said.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ( Mideast Syria Hiking To Safety Photo Essay )