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Have you been wondering what the most extreme thing to do in Toronto is? Me too! Let’s wonder no longer: it’s the Edge Walk at the CN Tower! For $175, some really enterprising Canadians will place you in a harness and send you out along the edge of one of the world’s tallest buildings and let you walk a circle 116 stories above the ground while strapped to an overhead railing. Not in this lifetime, if you’re wondering, but feel free to try it yourself!
A sign on the Georgia Tech campus gets a translation from someone who draws arrows. I guess you could call that person an “arrowsmith.” Note the people in the picture are obeying the signs. Link
Some day devices will be readily available to help wheel chair bound people walk again. Watch the video at the link to see a paralyzed man walk with the help of an exoskeleton.
A 22-year-old paraplegic college graduate, paralyzed since a 2007 car crash, used an exoskeleton to walk across the stage Saturday to receive his diploma.
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This creative video from Do the Green Thing maps the way we walk through our lives. The point is to walk more and drive less for the good of the environment, but the video is entertaining even without an environmental message. Link -via the Presurfer
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Looks like Boston Dynamics, the robot company that brought us BigDog and RHex, has worked out how to make a robot walk like a man. This is PETMAN, a robot that is supposed to serve humans. Currently it is used to test chemical warfare suits for the military. Link (with embedded YouTube clip)
Great-grandmother Josephine Mandamin, an Anishinabe elder from Thunder Bay, Ontario has seen the decline of the Great Lakes due to pollution, and decided to do something to bring the world’s attention to the problem. She began walking around the lakes six years ago, and has covered 17,000 kilometers so far.
In the Anishinabe tradition, women fetch the water. So, in 2003, when Mandamin was “moved by the spirits” to speak out for the Great Lakes, it was natural for her to pick up her copper pail and start walking. She decided to circle the lakes and tell people that “the water is sick … and people need to really fight for that water, to speak for that water, to love that water.”
Every spring since, Mandamin and a small band of followers have walked around one of the lakes. Next weekend they depart from the Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre here to walk up the St. Lawrence River. Their mission will end where the lakes’ water pours into the Atlantic Ocean (bearing so much poison that a quarter of the male beluga whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence have cancer).
At every tributary, Mandamin stops and talks directly to the water, offering prayers, tobacco and thanks. “I’ve heard so many times, `You’re crazy…’” she says. “But we know it’s not a crazy thing we’re doing; we know it’s for the betterment of the next generations.”
The Great Lakes provide drinking water to 35 million people. Link to story. Link to Mother Earth Water Walk website. -via Nag on the Lake
Illustration by Brian Hughes.
I’m not sure why, but every year, there is an unusual New Year’s Day tradition in Seattle, Washington: The Bad Wig and Ugly Track Suit Walk.
All you have to do to participate is don the ugliest wig and track suit you have tucked away in your closet somewhere (I’m sure you have ‘em) and walk around Green Lake.
Hey, it’s easier than putting on a zombie make up! Link – Thanks Marlow Harris!
