Getting to school the hard way. - Neatorama

Children of the Nujiang Great Canyon in China must cross a river to get to school, but there is no bridge. Instead, they harness themselves to a loop and cross on a rope suspended between trees on either side! Link

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You know, uphill both ways *is* technically possible. See if you can figure it out.

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I can just imagine the stories they'll be telling their grandchildren about the walk to school.

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Dude, that'd be kick ass.

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And if a girls falls into the river, it just provides an opportunity for the family to try for a boy in "one-child" Red China.

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And it's uphill both ways! With snow above my head in the winter...

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Having read the linked page, it's hard to see the yuks that are presumably inherent in the life of an autistic man who is unemployed (like so much of that population), isolated, delusional, and mocked by strangers. I guess it's a subculture, but I wish I didn't know about it. The Ship of Fools folks look like they're in on the joke, and what with Flanders being fictional and all, laughing at him is a little more fun.

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Well. Sorry.

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