[Thanks to Joe]
Children ride 40mph ZIP WIRE a quarter of a mile high to get to classes each day, article.Sounds like more fun than my school bus, and surely faster.
School run: Nine-year-old Daisy Mora makes the trip every day to get to lessons, with her five-year-old brother riding in a cloth bagTommy found a video. (No, it has not been on this blog before.)
Cool! Though no excuses for being late :-) How on earth do they get back? ... sprout wings or something?:-)
ReplyDeleteI guess the school days are kept to 35 minutes because it takes them ten hours to climb back home.
ReplyDeleteher hair looks dangerously close to that pulley
ReplyDeleteThe story needs to tell us how they get back. I guess there could be a winch at the top, but there is no indication of that.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the "rest of the story"
I thought this had been on here before, but maybe not. Check out this Ride to School
ReplyDeleteNot for this weak hearted guy, that's for sure ;-)
Just watched the video clip. Jeeeez! I don't mind admitting that I could actually feel my heart rate going up just watching those kids!
ReplyDeleteHow on Gods green earth does ANY parent let a small child do this at all ... never mind make the trip alone for the very first time???
Don't misunderstand, I'm not criticising, just a little stunned by what I was watching, and THAT happens VERY rarely!
They don't have much choice I guess, but in general there is a lot less of the excessive safety bullshit in South America that the rest of us seem to go in for. I remember seeing a Top Gear special where they went to Bolivia and were driving along this mountain road that had barely enough room for two cars. Just barely. There was no barrier along the side. It was a 2000-foot drop.
ReplyDeleteYes, but from what I hear, South America is also a quite dangerous place to live. So I'm guessing one follows the other.
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