Transportation is challenging for people living in the mountains around the Rio Negro in Colombia. For more than two hundred years, the only way in or out of this area has been by zip line. Even school-age children ride it a half-mile every day to attend classes:
More than 1,300ft above the roaring Rio Negro in Colombia, nine-year-old Daisy Mora prepares to throw herself over the abyss. Attaching herself to an old and rusted pulley system she drops over the edge before plummeting at 40mph along a zip wire to the opposite bank half a mile away - a vertigo-inducing journey she has to take every day to get to school.
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As for how she stops, looking at the picture and making an assumption, her right arm is holding the brakes.
@Clynch
Probably takes a bus to a certain point, and then walks the rest of the way up.
Why don't you mention the fact that that sack she's holding contains her 5 YEAR OLD BROTHER
That was seroiulsy the most shocking thing I read in this article!
haha jeeeeeeez. I think being in the bag might actually be scarier!
You'd think that the article would mention that the pictures are 4 years old.
http://pjmonolog.blogspot.com/2010/03/just-zip-it.html