In Bolivia, people use a system of ropes for the flight across the chasm

The deep cleft in the jungles of Bolivia - a very dangerous place, but the locals know how to move through them in no time. The journey on foot takes about an hour, as they will have to go down, cross the river and get to the other side. However, a safe way nobody uses. Within 30 seconds of the people of the Yungas is on the other side of the valley.

They do not grow wings and used aircraft. The secret is simple: across the valley spanned 20 ropes, moving with the help of rusted components and blocks. Some of the locals use ropes every day to go through the valley with their goods for sale. They tied themselves with strips of cloth and glide effortlessly, using trees as a brake.

The invention and the installation of a network of ropes credited with 72-year-old Don Ignacio, who was one of the first people who settled in the valley of the Yungas in 1955. According to Ignacio, then there was nothing that could be used for transportation of goods, except for their own backs. That's when Ignacio and figured out how to make their lives easier by a system of ropes and pulleys. He bought a steel wire and managed to reach it and the rope through the whole valley.

Without doubt, the idea of ​​traveling on the ropes genius, but any failure in the system can lead to death. Some of these cables have already celebrated their 20th anniversary and greatly weakened. In other places, the cables are generally several ropes connected to each other and not always reliable. Over the past 20 years it has had three downs, all of which ended in the tragic death. One of the dead was a local resident Mary's husband. And, while the remaining residents of the valley believe that the loss of life was the result of their negligence, Maria refuses to use a system of ropes to their movement through the valley.



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