To get to school, 9-year-old Daisy Mora from Colombia every day to overcome the turbulent river valley of Rio Negro has to slide across on a cable. From a height of 1300ft this brave little girl hurls at through the air at over 40mph with only a piece of wood as a brake. Off to school, each morning, 9-year-old daisy puts younger brother in jut bag and prepares to jump for her daily commute to school. For residents of a small hard-to-village 40 miles southeast of Bogota - it's the only way to communicate with the outside world. There are 12 steel cables that connect one side of the valley to the other and is the only way in or out. No roads reach these steep, densely forested slopes on the Cordillera Oriental. There aren't even any paths.Such a cable car in these places was described by the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the early 19th century when they were first seen.Since then, almost nothing has changed, except that the rope is no longer hemp, and steel cable has repla...
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[Source: News Weird Magazine]
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