If you like heights as much as I do, this photo is already making you queasy. Suddenly, riding in a gyrocopter and getting married on a high ledge don’t look quite so bad.
Welcome to a remote Russian village where “public transportation” means stepping onto a tightrope at one end and getting off at the other. Unscheduled stops aren’t recommended.
By an odd quirk of history, nearly everybody here can walk the high wire. Learning is a family affair, and don’t expect to hear parents saying “You kids come down from that tightrope, it’s dangerous.”
In the words of one boy, My mother was a tightrope walker, and I will be too. James Kilner tells the story, and Helen Long has a video report, and here is a photo slideshow:
A man walks the tightrope in the remote mountain village of Tsovkra-1, some 3,000 meters above sea level in Russia’s Caucasus region of Dagestan, August 20, 2007. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
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No doubt the product of a well-balance diet.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksA much slower window-washing system than the Chinese one.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksSeen it but still not with a pogo stick.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksNice. Here’s your blindfold and rollerblades.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksWho says Darwin was wrong?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksAnd I thought the guy in the gyrocopter was an idiot.
- Posted by John C Abell