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Teh One Who Knocks
07-10-2014, 07:33 PM
http://i.imgur.com/QXGhCDN.jpg

His name was Dashrath Manjhi, and it took him 22 years. People laughed at him at first. Years into his project they brought him food and tools. When he was finished, they praised him.

http://i.imgur.com/7X11vMX.jpg

Manjhi was first driven to create a faster path through the mountains to the nearest hospital when his wife was injured. Because they couldn’t get her to a hospital fast enough, she passed away. Manjhi didn’t want anyone else in his village to go through this tragedy

http://i.imgur.com/5StcKMT.jpg

They told him a single man could not carve down a mountain. This only steeled his resolve.

From 1960 to 1982, from ages 35 to 55, Manjhi picked at the mountain, eventually creating a 360 foot long, 25 foot deep road. This new path cut the trip from his village to the hospital from 44 miles to just 9 miles.

http://i.imgur.com/RV64JX5.jpg

The path through the mountain (indicated by the green arrow, just above center) is longer than a football field and makes it easy to transport the sick.

http://i.imgur.com/XjsYn01.jpg

People stopped calling him crazy and started praising him as the ‘Mountain Man.’ The local government has proposed a paved road to be named “Dashrath Manjhi Road” and a hospital in his honor.

http://i.imgur.com/lT2LFaJ.jpg

The health of his village is owed to the man that carved through a mountain, Dashrath Manjhi.

KevinD
07-10-2014, 07:43 PM
so, it was finished in '82?
32 years ago, and they're just now getting around to naming it for him??

PorkChopSandwiches
07-10-2014, 08:53 PM
And paving it after he all ready did all the heavy lifting. Where where they when he was at it by hand :lol: Pretty amazing anyway

Hal-9000
07-10-2014, 09:49 PM
tres cool...but like PCS mentions, did they drive around it with tractors and back hoes while he was working daily? :lol: bastards

deebakes
07-10-2014, 10:42 PM
:-k

Hugh_Janus
07-10-2014, 11:36 PM
From 1960 to 1982, from ages 35 to 55
lrn2maths