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Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: LionKing on February 27, 2015, 04:04:16 AM

Title: Chinese Mountain Footpath
Post by: LionKing on February 27, 2015, 04:04:16 AM

This is really something.. I wouldn't dare to do, but I love the photos of China I see on the net. Avatar was filmed in one of its forests and nature is awesome. I hope I can visit someday                             


http://www.architecturendesign.net/the-most-dangerous-footpath-in-the-world/

Title: Re: Chinese Mountain Footpath
Post by: Echnaton on February 27, 2015, 12:00:15 PM

I get vertigo just from looking at those photos. 

Title: Re: Chinese Mountain Footpath
Post by: Northern Lurker on February 27, 2015, 01:33:36 PM

I wonder how they resupply the tea house?

Lurky

Title: Re: Chinese Mountain Footpath
Post by: LionKing on February 27, 2015, 04:27:20 PM

Quote from: Northern Lurker on February 27, 2015, 01:33:36 PM

I wonder how they resupply the tea house?

Lurky

I had in mind the same question

anyhow here is a video

I just remember my cowardice when I was in SriLanka's Sigiriya fort..metal stairs high but nothing compared to this and I clang with both hands to the hand of the stairs and at once I shouted for the guide to hold my hand .. 

Title: Re: Chinese Mountain Footpath
Post by: raven on February 27, 2015, 04:39:46 PM

For a cup of tea?
Of course!
How do they resupply it? Well, tea is pretty light, so probably the same way the tourists get there.

Title: Re: Chinese Mountain Footpath
Post by: Echnaton on March 01, 2015, 03:52:54 PM

When I was trekking in Nepal in 1983 the sherpas brought soda in bottles up into the mountains in baskets.  Carried on the back by a rope and pad over the heads.  We had to get out of the way so they could pass as the jogged up the trails that we struggled to climb.  And those Cokes (not the real stuff but the local brand) sure tasted good at the end of the day.  For bulkier loads, they uses bigger baskets or a board to support the cargo.

Title: Re: Chinese Mountain Footpath
Post by: LionKing on March 01, 2015, 04:19:09 PM

Quote from: Echnaton on March 01, 2015, 03:52:54 PM

When I was trekking in Nepal in 1983 the sherpas brought soda in bottles up into the mountains in baskets.  Carried on the back by a rope and pad over the heads.  We had to get out of the way so they could pass as the jogged up the trails that we struggled to climb.  And those Cokes (not the real stuff but the local brand) sure tasted good at the end of the day.  For bulkier loads, they uses bigger baskets or a board to support the cargo.

Unfortunately the more the ppl are poor the more they are ready to do tiresome  and even dangerous jobs :(
I remember a video I saw on youtube on an African man hunting a large snake with his leg
"If poverty was man, I would have killed him"